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Chisholm Trail history
Places

Chisholm Trail: The West’s Greatest Cattle Route

The Chisholm Trail is renowned for cattle, cowboys, chuck wagons, and nearly everything iconic about the Old West.…

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Ghost Towns

12 Ghost Towns in Arizona with Wild & Woolly Histories

Arizona’s boom-and-bust mining history left hundreds of ghost towns in its wake. Here’s a look at some of…

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Places

9 Reasons Why Fort Bridger was the Worst Fort on the Oregon Trail

Between the early 1840s and the end of the 1860s, more than 400,000 settlers traversed the 2,170-mile Oregon…

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Lost Mines & Treasure

7 Tantalizing Stories of Lost Treasure in Oregon

Even if all you had to go on was what you learned in movies, you probably know that…

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Places

10 Places to See Native American Pictographs & Petroglyphs in the West

Humans have been creating rock art since paleolithic times. The oldest known of which (so far) is cave…

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Ghost Towns

20 Wild West Towns Where You Can Still Experience the Frontier

When it comes to Old West towns, most people think of empty dirt streets filled with tumbleweeds and…

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Places

15 Western-Inspired Things to do in Prescott, Arizona

Prescott’s unique history makes it one of Arizona’s most interesting places to visit for families, history buffs and…

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History

17 Epic Facts about the Transcontinental Railroad

When the Golden Spike connected Central Pacific and Union Pacific rails at Promontory Summit, Utah, in May 1869,…

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Places

10 Interesting Facts About Long Branch Saloon, Dodge City’s Infamous Watering Hole

Fans of the television show Gunsmoke may have fond memories of the Long Branch, Dodge City, Kansass lively…

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Ghost Towns

7 California Ghost Towns that Capture the Golden State’s Rich Mining History

These seven ghost towns in California show glimpses of just how the ’49ers lived in their pursuit of…

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Lost Mines & Treasure

Lost Treasure in California: True Stories of the Golden State’s Hidden Riches

From buried caches of gold to sunken treasure, California is a bona fide hot spot for hidden treasures…

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Places

Register Cliff: Where Pioneer Graffiti Becomes an Historic Time Capsule

Just like a large, blank building wall in an inner city tempts graffiti artists, a massive, soft sandstone…