The wave of gold fever in Cripple Creek-Victor (1893-1910) came decades after Colorado’s official gold rush (1858-1861), but it was no less bountiful. Within just a few years, the area had transformed

I magine you’re in Nebraska, standing on North America’s Great Plains, where the broad Platte and Missouri rivers join on their way to the mighty Mississippi. It’s 1804, and in the blistering 36°C hea

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Take a peek behind the scenes of our latest issue with the writers and photographers who made it happen

‘Green sickness’, also known as the ‘disease of virgins’ – a diagnosis applied mainly to teenage girls from the 16th to the 19th centuries – is one of the most puzzling conditions in the history of me

OLD FUSS & FEATHERS