We’ve all seen a log cabin. Such structures were the norm for many Americans early in the country’s history. But did you ever see a…

Farmers might contract with someone to spray for weeds, fertilize the soil or harvest a crop.  Some farmers even contract for a company to come fly falcons…

There are many challenges to growing a crop.  Poor weather, weeds, and disease are just a few.  We often don’t think of birds as a potential problem,…

Some people turn up their nose at brussels sprouts.  Where do artichokes fare in comparison?  We head to a valley where the unusual crop is grown…

Sometimes it’s hard to get kids to eat their vegetables.  Now imagine the vegetable looks like a hand grenade and people believe you can choke when eating…

Some sports not only require thousands of hours of training, they also require a hefty financial investment. For those who run Alaska’s famous Iditarod, it…

In the 1930s a cowboy song began to get quite a bit of air time on radio stations.  But suddenly the music stopped, when one…

The song, “Home of the Range,” turns 140 years old this year.  It might not sound like a big deal, but the song and the site…

Brewster Higley didn’t think much about the poem he’d written.  In fact, he stuffed it in a book and hadn’t looked at it for over a…

On the surface, the story doesn’t seem too different from other settlers stories of the late 1800s.  A man from Indiana decided to move west and homestead…