Author: Tom
Salt and Pepper Museum
Here’s the story of a woman who built her own museum–by accident at the beginning, but one that people from around the world come to…
Mark Twain
Little remains of the town of Florida, Missouri–or depending on how you view history–a lot remains of Florida, Missouri. While the town is gone, it…
Pawnee Bill’s Wild West Show
It may have seemed this famous western showman had married the wrong woman. After all, his bride was a city girl who didn’t grow up…
A Cowboy Named Gordon Lillie
Many of us had childhood heroes, and for Gordon it was the famous showman Buffalo Bill. What he might never have imagined was how he…
A Cattle Drive in the Grand Hall of Union Station
If you’ve been around cattle for much of your life, you know there are times when one head in the bunch just doesn’t seem to…
The Union Station Massacre
Some say this event was the spark that created today’s FBI. It was a crime that made national headlines and still leaves a literal mark…
Union Station
Grand Central Station is the largest train station in the country when measured by the actual size of the building. Who is second? The location…
Jim Thorpe
In 1912 he was proclaimed the world’s greatest athlete and some of his Olympic records from that year still stood two decades later. He was…
A Star Athlete
When you think of historically great collegiate football programs, names like Notre Dame, Penn State and Alabama might come to mind. Most people don’t name…
Palm Springs, California
Before Palm Springs was a resort town–before Palm Springs was really even a town, for that matter; movie stars began building their second homes here….