Who Were the First Europeans to Reach the American West?
After the Renaissance, the Portuguese and the Spanish competed for discovery of the “New World.”
Imagine a village built into the side of a cliff, hundreds of feet above the canyon floor. No elevators. No ladders left behind. Just empty rooms and silence. This is the world of the Ancestral Puebloans, once known as the Anasazi. They lived across the Four Corners region of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado…
Was Butch Cassidy real? Yes, he was. The real person behind the name was: Robert Leroy Parker. Roy, as he was known when he was young, was born in Beaver, Utah, in April 1866. His father, Maximilian, had a small homestead property there. His parents converted to Mormonism in England and came to America in…