War sometimes touches the lives of innocent people – citizens not involved in the conflict, yet caught in the middle of the battle.  That was…

It was the fall of 1862 and tensions ran high in northeast Missouri.  Local Union and Confederate troops had skirmished and local citizens were keenly…

Although his time here in North Dakota was not long if measured in numbers of days…the quality of that time and the impact it made…

To date, no U.S. president has been born in North Dakota…but this commander-in-chief experienced a rebirth there that he said was the reason he one…

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…

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….

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…

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…

When bridges become obsolete, they are usually torn down and sold for scrap.  This city thought their over century old bridge might be worth something….

This city is not even 40 years old, yet it grown to over 60,000 residents.  When you consider it’s in the middle of the desert,…