Memories of California's Gold Rush loom large in this fascinating town that provides the perfect base for exploring all the ...

Throughout its tumultuous, brief history, Silver Reef epitomized the fleeting frenzy of the American West where transient ...

Originally, Mount Rushmore was supposed to depict heroes of the Wild West. In the end, the sculptor settled for four American ...

The balloon flying over the 1991 Corn Palace was created in 1983 by Bill Soukup and Tracy Barnes. It is designed to resemble ...

Miners seeking gold in the 1800s weren’t wrong about a mother lode being in Wyoming that turned South Pass City into a boom ...

Amanda Takes War Bonnett-Beauvais was honored Friday for her work in geneaology by the South Dakota Historical Society.

Thomas Francis Walsh, who immigrated to the States from Ireland at age 19, caught the western fever after the financial crash of 1873. His search for wealth led him from ...