Local celebrations include parades and reenactments as well as hatchet burials, horse races and barbecue competitions.

Hand stencils, animal drawings and narrative paintings make up some of the oldest known cave art.

James Beckwourth was born into slavery, but forged a life as a 19th-century pioneer in the American West.

In 1988, a team of athletes from sun-soaked Jamaica became an unlikely sensation by competing in the very winter sport of bobsledding.