Only three miles from Main Street in downtown Breckenridge there is a backcountry trailhead that follows the colorful town’s ...

Amid the race to secure mineral deposits—including in Ukraine and Greenland—the smartest players see a different opportunity.

In the 19th century mining was a very dangerous business: miners had only basic tools and worked by open candle flame. Down the coal mines there were places where there was a high concentration of ...

but by the later 19th century areas such as Pennsylvania and Ohio saw a high economic demand for Welsh industrial and mining skills. Jackson County, Ohio, was even named ‘Little Wales’.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Ireland suffered from an event known as the Great Hunger or the Potato Famine. Ireland at the ...