This video examines the Great Raid of 1840, one of the largest and most devastating raids in frontier history. Hundreds of warriors crossed vast distances, attacking settlements and spreading panic ...

Life in the American West is life in a region that has been conscripted into the service of the nation’s frontier myth. Nowhere are the absurdities and tragedies of this myth more apparent than in the ...

QUESTION: Talk about the Frederick Jackson Turner and the American Frontier. WILLIAM CRONON: Frederick Jackson Turner's significance to the frontier in American history is that his is arguably the ...

Augusta County was once the wild, wild west. That’s right, when our area was first settled in the 1720s or so, we were the western frontier. But unlike other parts of the American frontier – western ...