A large bronze state depicting a Native American on a horse awaits installation Thursday at Pioneer Courage Park in downtown Omaha. Workers even out some rock Thursday while installing sculptures at ...

As Utahns observe a paradeless Pioneer Day this year, James Singer is thinking about origins and identities — his own, his people, his church. Every year on July 24, Salt Lake City stages a big show ...

With real estate prices beyond any rational means of explanation — here in Chautauqua County and elsewhere — I’ve had some fun reading about the very first pioneer settlers in Chautauqua County. I’m ...

Historians note that there are more stories to tell other than an epic trek by Latter-day Saints to find a religious refuge. Editor’s note • This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers ...

NMAI copy 39088019918853 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. French and Spanish explorations before the Louisiana Purchase -- The Osage terrorize the Southwest, 1770-1810 -- Eastern ...

About 175 years ago, just a stretch south along the Brazos River, early Texans were deftly wielding their pens and declaring Texas’ independence from Mexico. That declaration, which began in ink, ...

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 ...

BRAINERD — The so-called “Blueberry War” of the late 1800s between American Indians and European settlers in the Brainerd lakes area was over before it even started. The area was once a dense pine ...

They were anxious for freedom and opportunity. With the excitement of gold, land acquisition, and the possibility of improving their lives, so came the pioneers. Settlers moved into the Gore Creek ...

IN an article entitled “ Gnadenhiitten,” which was printed in the Atlantic for January, 1869, the principal facts of the noble career here so fully described were sketched, and the present work, which ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough is a master of triumphal tales that celebrate Americans' personal fortitude and achievements. His most recent book, The Pioneers, a history of the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- David McCullough is one of the country's most beloved historians, known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of Harry Truman and John Adams, acclaimed works on the Brooklyn ...