Gold was discovered in Montana in 1862, ushering in a flood of prospectors straight through the heart of Lakota territory on a new road called the Bozeman trail, further straining tensions between ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Anna Dalton raced this year’s Jim Bridger Trail Run at a comfortable pace, taking it easy on the ...

With the release of Netflix's hit Western limited series American Primeval, audiences have been working to separate the fact from the fiction concerning many of the characters and events portrayed.

In 1812, the Bridger family sold the farm and inn and moved west to a farmstead near St. Louis. The town was in its infancy in the early 1800s, but provided a healthy amount of work for Patrick Henry.