A lot of people don’t like spinach, but this guy did.  In fact he really liked spinach.  And when he ate spinach he could accomplish…

There was no doubt this young man had talent.  He was operating motion picture as the local opera house in the early 1900s and drawing…

The name Elzie Segar doesn’t resonate with most folks, unless you happen to live in Chester, Illinois.  Folks there know the man who created characters…

Imagine unearthing history from nearly two centuries ago to find the secret routes people used to gain their freedom.  That’s what this man does and…

Railroads spanned these two cities on opposite sides of the Mississippi River, but it was a secret railroad that had Eric Robinson most interested.  Today…

Today’s rolling hillsides are serene and peaceful, yet it was this very place that was once one of the worst places on earth.  We remember…

By the end of the Civil War, the conditions inside this prison grew so bleak as to compel one soldier to write, it takes 7…

Just off the courthouse square in Dalhart, Texas you’ll find a small museum devoted to a very large subject – the XIT ranch.  The three-million-acre…

Imagine a ranch so large it took thousands of miles of wire just to fence the pastures.  It was a huge spread totally three million…

When the state of Texas needed to build a new state capitol building they had a plan in place to raise money for construction.  That…