Category: Legend of America

Mushroom Towns of the American West By Randall Parrish in 1907 The westward expansion of the United States in the […]

Beginning of Settlement in the American West The vast expanse of the Great Plains, a landscape stretching from the Missouri […]

Fort Sedgwick, Colorado Nestled on the plains of northeastern Colorado, near the confluence of Lodgepole Creek and the South Platte […]

Wild & Woolly Cowtowns By the National Livestock Historical Association in 1904 The American West, a land of vast open […]

The Range of the American West In the nascent years of the 19th century, as the United States looked westward […]

Outlaws of the Mountains By Emerson Hough in 1905 The California Gold Rush, a period of intense migration and resource […]

Albert Jennings Fountain – Missing in the Desert The arid landscape of southern New Mexico holds many secrets, whispering tales […]

Modern Bad Men The annals of the early American borderlands, predating established legal systems and stable property rights, occasionally cast […]

Henry Plummer in The Story of the Outlaw By Emerson Hough in 1905 The vast, untamed landscapes of Montana and […]

Lincoln County War by Emerson Hough The history of the American frontier is often painted with broad strokes of heroism […]

Ghost Towns & Mining Camps of Colorado The late 19th century in Colorado was a period defined by the relentless […]

The Reign Of The Prairie Schooner I hear the tread of Pioneers, Of Nations yet to be; The first low […]