The Comanche were one of the most powerful forces on the American frontier. Through skill, strategy, and mobility, they controlled vast regions of the Southern Plains and resisted colonial expansion ...

A cowboy, with one hand on a rein and the other in the air, hangs on with all his might as a horse jumps, kicks and tries to fling him off of his back. Both sport and spectacle, the rodeo has become ...

In a recent bulletin of the Superintendent of the Census for 1890 appear these significant words: “Up to and including 1889 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area ...

Absorbing its Western frontier gave 19th century America a core task. In 1890 the Census Bureau, which tracked frontier settlement, declared the job done. Yet the American frontier persists, its needs ...