A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

The Texas Panhandle is rich and complex, shaped by Native American cultures, Spanish explorers, frontier settlers, ranchers and the development of railroads and the oil industry. It has been inhabited ...

But neither metric is accurate - the former tends to overestimate population sizes, since early colonizers wanted to advertise riches of newly discovered lands to European financial backers.