Curated category
Western United States
- AlaskaIn 2013, archaeologist Ben Potter unearthed the remains of a six-week-old infant at the Upward Sun River site in the Tanana Valley.
- Western United StatesThe United States Census Bureau drew a line across the map in 1902 to separate the West from the rest of the country. That boundary placed the Rocky…
- New MexicoWheeler Peak rises to 13,167 feet in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. This highest point anchors a state where over four-fifths of the land sits above sea…
- ArizonaThe air in Phoenix reaches 106 degrees Fahrenheit during July, yet Flagstaff sits at nearly 7,000 feet and sees snow fall every winter.
- CaliforniaBefore the first Spanish ship touched the Pacific shore in 1542, at least three hundred thousand people lived across what is now California.