By the early 1880s, prairie residents including white settlers, Métis, and Plains Indians were convinced of the neglect of a distant and imperial Ottawa. The Métis (mixed blood offspring of fur ...

A cemetery, the home of the dead, is ever an interesting spot to the living. Here ends the labor of those who lived before. Their names and epitaphs bring recollections of the past to mind.” So ...

It’s been roughly 3 1/2 years since I began writing this weekly history column. At this point, I think it’s safe to say that I like to write. I can’t quite put my finger on why, ...

It's these calls that earned the prairie dog its name — early settlers thought they sounded like the bark of a dog. Today, black-tailed prairie dog populations have been reduced by as much as 95 ...