Olive Oatman and her family traveled from Independence, Missouri, to settle in California in 1851. Or that was the plan. While traveling through Maricopa Wells in Arizona, the family was attacked by a group of Native Ame...

Oregon Trail was designed as an educational kids’ game, and a generation of students learned about the settling of the western United States by playing it. There were many ways to die, but it was still rated for ge...

Adolfo Farsari was quite a character. An Italian who emmigrated to the USA with the sole intention of fighting in the Civil War (he was a fervent abolitionist) he eventually arrived in Japan. He was one of the few fore...