Though the settlers used trees for shelter, barns, fences and heat, they saw trees as one of their greatest enemies when it ...

What was it like to be a pioneer? In the 1830s and 1840s Illinois was considered the West described as an “unbroken ...

Friends George Winston and Fountain McKenzie shared many adventures and came from similar backgrounds. Both were born about 1822 and arrived in Cole County as children with their pioneering families ...

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Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a frozen shoreline in what’s now Japan or Russia, staring east across the gray ...

Two Clydesdale horses pull the hearse bearing the remains of eight young children from colonial-era Maryland at the beginning ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...