Category: American Countryside
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…
A Record Setting Bridge
For over seven decades, this bridge was a record setter, the highest suspension bridge in the world. It continues to draw visitors from around the…
Natural Beauty Stumbled Upon By Accident
Thousands of people still drive to this location to be amazed by the natural beauty of this place. It makes you wonder what the first…
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
Perhaps it’s fitting that you have to go a bit out of the way to find the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. This well known site…
A Fear on Lake Superior
Some sailors and airman have long feared the Bermuda Triangle for the mysterious fate of some who have passed there. Whitefish Point is a bit…