Wild Frontiers push the boundaries of travel, opening up the world’s remoter corners, allowing us a taste of true exploration. Explore the Wild West in old west towns, on trail rides, tours, special events, photo shoots, and more.
Experience living history at its best with approximately 125 tents and teepees set up for this annual Western heritage event. Spend the weekend at Woolaroc in Bartlesville and join participants from all over the United States as they recreate the…
CLAIM TO FAME – Cripple Creek’s moniker, “the World’s Greatest Gold Camp,” stems from the fact that more gold (over 22 million ounces) was discovered here, beginning in 1890, than in California and Alaska combined.
CLAIM TO FAME – The Comstock Lode, the single richest deposit of silver and gold in the continental United States, was struck here on the side of Mount Davidson in 1859.
CLAIM TO FAME – More than $90 million worth of gold was pulled out of 14-mile-long Alder Gulch from 1863-75, catapulting Montana into territorial status.
CLAIM TO FAME “The Queen of the Cowtowns” sprang into existence with the arrival of the Santa Fe Railway in 1872, allowing first for the shipping of native buffaloes (slaughtered by the hundred thousands), followed by longhorn cattle driven up…
CLAIM TO FAME –The Black Hills Gold Rush swept into this gulch of dead trees in 1876, bringing with it a torrent of fortune-seekers, including the legendary Wild Bill Hickok, who was shot in the back by Jack McCall during…
CLAIM TO FAME – The “town too tough to die” was founded in 1877 by prospector Ed Schieffelin, who had been assured he would find nothing in the Apache-infested desert except his own tombstone.
