The brutal and unforgiving American frontier created a different kind of man. These explorers, fur trappers, guides, and frontiersmen led the American expansion in the first years of the 1800s.

This story appears in the July 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Each year around the Fourth of July, in a vale in the Rocky Mountains, a scene from another century plays out. Dozens of ...

A wild Mountain West men's basketball tournament seems likely. The top five teams in the Mountain West mostly dominated the bottom, but had some epic battles between each other. New Mexico won the ...