but living freely on America's western frontier nevertheless appealed to thousands of men. These photos were taken across the American West between the late 1800s and the early 1900s.

On the top of a grassy hill off Tuckaseegee Road in west Charlotte stands a big white farmhouse with a wraparound porch and a red brick chimney. This house has ... one from the 1800s, one from ...

It brings recycling to a new ‘historic’ level — parts of ‘kit houses’ which were brought over from the US to accommodate miners in West Cork ... in the late 1800s, the wood from them ...