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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….

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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…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Michigan

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Michigan

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…

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