After the emigrants who had detoured south to Fort Bridger had made their repairs and stocked their supplies, it was time to travel on and the next stop on the Oregon Trail for most would be Fort Hall ...

Everyone who's been to the Oregon coast has seen a driftwood fort, and almost everyone has built one or used an existing one to get away from the wind and blowing sand for a few minutes. It's a ...

Some 320 miles west by northwest of Fort Kearney would lie the next stop along the Oregon Trail for most emigrants. It was flat, then hilly, and then the first mountain pass the emigrants would have ...

The first set of events has already taken place n Virginia, when an extended weekend of observances and re-enactments occurred at and around the preserved battlefield at Cedar Mountain, where on ...

Author, fine artist and fort-builder James Herman opens his spiritual guide book on the coastal driftwood fort phenomenon, “Driftwood Forts Of The Oregon Coast,” with a passage of former Oregon ...

GOLD HILL, Ore. — More than 150 years after the Rogue Indian Wars, Fort Lane has melted into a field covered with star thistle, with little but foundation stones, clay pipes and brass buttons to show ...