When people talk about getting ready for disaster, two groups always come up — preppers and survivalists. At first glance, they seem alike: both value self-reliance and readiness when life takes a ...

“Did he say fight?” Drew Miller asked me. It was July 13th, and we were in rural Colorado, near an outpost of Fortitude Ranch, a network of survivalist retreats that Miller has constructed in ...

Survivalism is a primarily United States movement of individuals or groups (called survivalists or preppers) who actively prepare for emergencies, including possible disruptions in social or political ...

The day after President Donald Trump was elected in 2016, Eric Shonkwiler looked at his hiking bag to figure out what supplies he had. “I began to look at that as a resource for escape, should that ...

LONGMONT, Colorado, March 9 (Reuters) - Brook Morgan surveyed booths at the "Survival & Prepper Show" in Colorado that were stocked with boxes of ammunition, mounds of trauma medical kits, and every ...

Doomsday prepping is no longer a fringe obsession. The survivalist movement, which was long stereotyped as made up of gun-wielding, right-wing older white men, is evolving. According to John Ramey, ...

COLUMBIA — For those concerned about societal collapse or impending disaster, two South Carolina lawmakers have a plan. It includes community ammo depots and tactical weapons training. State Reps.

I hadn’t heard much out of the class of Americans known as doomsday preppers lately, so I foolishly thought they had, well, failed to survive. But no. The great news is that you don’t have to survive ...

According to the National Park Service, as early as 1866, when the law stated that Blacks were allowed to benefit from the Homestead Act signed by Abraham Lincoln, homesteading became the entry way ...

A few weeks ago, I became convinced I ought to buy a compass. Also a tent, a LifeStraw, and solar chargers. Was I embarrassed about this 48-hour panic? Yes. But reading an op-ed at two in the morning ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. – If you'd consider yourself a "survivalist" – someone preparing for imminent crisis – you're not alone. In fact, some 2.5 million Hoosiers would describe themselves as "survivalists," ...