Discover how early settlers and Indian tribes-built Ohio’s rich farming legacy, shaping the state into a 19th-century ...

Editor’s Note: The Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker a recently retired Librarian from Texas Tech. He can be reached at [email protected]. He wrote today’s article and is currently ...

WATERTOWN TWP. – Some of Washington County’s earliest pioneers, including a common pleas judge, are buried in Radacker Cemetery, along Hendershot Road in Watertown Township. “Radacker” is apparently a ...

I have already discussed many of the obstacles, or problems, faced by the early settlers in Ohio. Things like disease and lack of medical care, food scarcity, disgruntled indigenous animals and ...

Pioneers' Flatboat, originally published in black and white in The Century Magazine (volume 92, May to October, 1916). Wood engraving by Alfred Waud David McCullough, a Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

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Shreveport history has many twists, turns and mysteries. But efforts are underway to solve the mystery of the final resting place of one of Shreveport’s early pioneers. The search starts in historic ...

BYU geography professor Brandon Plewe has studied how early Pioneer saints established the church in the Utah desert and says he’s impressed by their dedication and faith that brought order to the ...

Cartoons have captivated and delighted children ― and the young at heart ― for generations. As the motion picture industry emerged, cartoons became a staple feature of the matinee. As television later ...

She was a groundbreaking aviator who learned to fly after hearing tall tales from a pilot who’d crash-landed on her grandfather’s golf course in Warren Township, New Jersey. Later, she was one of the ...