Prescott's beginnings are closely tied to a frontier post called Fort Whipple.

Because Fort Frederick was the only colonial fort until Fort Cumberland, Ambrose said these civilian forts were used as a bridge to communicate with other camps.

The Hanna-Riggs family from Dallas, Texas, is comprised of dads Joe and Jason, along with their two sons, Lucas and Ethan. Jason Hanna, Joe Riggs, and their 10-year-old twin sons are living off the ...

Life for the soldiers at a frontier post like Fort Worth (1849-1853) was tedious and joyless, an endless series of drills and fatigue duties relieved only occasionally by free time. For the ...

Alcohol, prostitutes, games and music were diversions for soldiers amid an otherwise tedious assignment to the frontier post of Fort Worth.

Because frontier settlers had few options for purchasing goods, rampant mark-ups were a fact of life. Selling products to American Indians at even higher prices happened frequently enough that ...

A historic fort in northeast Iowa is open to visitors again after completion of a major preservation project. The centerpiece of the Fort Atkinson State Preserve in Winneshiek County is a frontier ...

No visit to Fort Sill's Frontier Army Days is deemed complete without witnessing the firing of a period-correct cannon, a spectacle that both educates and exhilarates.

Fort Worth’s Frontier Centennial in 1936 has been well documented by the late Mike Nichols and by Richard Gonzales, history columnists for the Star-Telegram, and in Jan Jones’ book, “Billy ...

Declassified images from Cold War satellites reveal hundreds of lost Roman forts Outposts in Syria and Iraq, on empire's eastern frontier, were likely places where travellers could rest ...