From hardtack to bacon and wild game, we interviewed an expert to learn all about the diet of the explorers who ventured out ...

During the 19th century, many pioneers emigrated across the United States on wagon trails taking them west. The Oregon Trail, which wound over 2,000 miles from present-day Missouri to Oregon, still ...

If you want to travel across the country, you have options — you can just hop into the car, head to the train station, or take the bus. Easy. But back in the mid-19th century, when none of these ...