A host of experts and visits to noted collections and museums shed new light on crime and punishment in the Old West. Learn what it was like to be a sheriff or judge in the boomtowns and whistle stops that peppered the expanding frontier. In the 19th century, as the nation spread rapidly west, it was all the law could do to keep up. The promise of a fresh start and undiscovered territory brought many questionable characters to the frontier and its...

The Rocky Mountains were "like the stairs of heaven after the last soul has ascended earth," said Fitz Hugh Ludlow. Said Sitting Bull of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, "Our young men rained lead across the river and drove the white braves back. This is the time of the Civil War in the East, the last of the Indian Wars, the final spike in the transcontinental railroad. Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt paint a mythical Eden, while pioneer photographers...

Business efficiency exhibition

East-West trade agreements

Women and men working in factories during war

Fish sticks processed at factory

409 Bathroom Cleaner Commercial.

NYNEX workers on strike because of health benefits.

Dodge auto show exhibit (cars, automobiles)

Pharmaceutical company, manufacturing antibiotics