Results for keyword: pioneers
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Following the Oregon Trail, digitally and on foot
Following a childhood fascination with the computer game Oregon Trail, a young archaeologist meets the real thing during a rugged, exhausting Wyoming summer.
by Laura Herrington Watson, Feb 15, 2012 -
From the Old World to the Old West: A review of The Little Bride
Anna Solomon's fascinating first novel follows a young Jewish woman from Odessa, Russia, to the hardscrabble prairie of South Dakota in the late 1800s.
by Jenny Shank, Jan 22, 2012 -
And you think times are tough
The articles in old American Heritage magazines remind us that life in the West used to be a whole lot harder than it is.
by Jaime O'Neill , Jun 15, 2009 -
A natural and cultural history of the Rocky Mountains
Gary Ferguson explores the history and culture of the backbone of the West in The Great Divide: The Rocky Mountains in the American Mind
by Stephen J. Lyons, Dec 26, 2005






