Many early day settlers came to Western Kansas via the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, and in the 1870’s and early ...

But now what’s left of Leadfield – a ghost town in Death Valley National Park about 22 miles west of Beatty, Nevada – stands ...

Visiting Idaho’s Sun Valley Ski Resort during winter feels like stepping into an ad. Strap on your skis and explore these ...

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Perched at 10,900 feet along Colorado's Independence Pass, the ruins of Independence Ghost Town sit quietly above the ...

A modern-day gold rush boom was on full display at Calico California Days, a kitschy celebration of early settlements held at Calico Ghost Town, the legendary San Bernardino County mining hub that ...

As he headed to a construction job in Atlantic City with his cousin on a cold Friday in December, Rene Dominguez Facundo had plenty of reasons to want to get back home to Bridgeton as soon as possible ...

The 5th Annual California Days event will take place at Calico Ghost Town on Feb. 14 and 15. This family-friendly event will celebrate Calico's mining history with reenactments, games, and live music.

I was born and raised in Parkersburg and I’ve been proud to admit that fact. When I was 18, I moved to Huntington to attend college at Marshall. Ten years later, I moved to Palm Beach County, Fla., ...

A middle-aged man makes peace with his childhood trauma in Perrotta’s stellar latest (after Tracy Flick Can’t Win). Accomplished novelist Jimmy Perrini looks back on his youth in bucolic Creamwood, ...

When Jerry Craghead stepped on a mine grate called a grizzly, in a tunnel in the Eagle Mine at Gilman, Colorado, the grizzly gave way and Craghead nearly plunged down the deep shaft below. The miner ...

Several men and two teenagers have been arrested in connection with a shooting that left a 19-year-old dead outside a Costco in Phoenix last month. A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration ...