Month: August 2015
Meet A Childhood Idol
We all had people we idolized as youngsters. Perhaps they were movie or sports stars. Maybe you even got to meet them once. For one…
The Heavyweight Boxing Champ
When Jack Dempsey held the heavyweight boxing title, he had to defend his belt against the world’s top fighters…and one very mean typewriter. This is…
Don’t Call Him a Big Baby
If you called someone a “big baby” you would probably insult them as a whining coward. Jack WAS a big baby, and he became an…
The Story of Hi Jolly
In Quartzite, Arizona you can find the grave of Hi Jolly. It’s the Americanized name of a man responsible for transporting many of the supplies…
Moving Supplies in the Desert
How do you move people and supplies across a desert? Well, the answer may depend on what desert you are attempting to cross. The U.S….
Boats Cruising the Middle of a Desert
When you picture steamboats, we may have images of stately paddle wheeled ships moving up and down the Mississippi River. So, it may seem odd…
Good Fences
Every rancher knows they need good fences to keep the herd from running wild on the neighbor’s property. In the 1850s there were not any…
Remembering Flight 599 on the Kansas Prairie
He was perhaps an unlikely tour guide and an even more unlikely person to be recognized by cheering crowds and a large football stadium. Perhaps…
The Knute Rockne Tragedy
It’s been over eighty years since Knute Rockne walked the football sidelines at Notre Dame. However, phrases like “Win one for the Gipper” and his…
Crash in the Flint Hills
It was an unlikely spot for a national story – the Flint Hills of Kansas in the early 1930s. A place far from the national…