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A Summer Vacation for Centuries

Maybe you are looking forward to a summer vacation.  Every year thousands of visitors flock to this national park.  However, it’s safe to say the…

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Steep Grades, Sharp Curves and Driving Backwards

It’s a road that may seem to lead to nowhere.  What’s more intriguing is that road has some of the steepest grades and sharpest curves…

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Cool Springs, Arizona

Most cars have long ago left this lonely road west of Kingman Arizona.  When the cars disappeared, so did many of the businesses.  However, this…

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Providing Power to the Southwest

Before Hoover Dam supplied electricity for this region of the southwest, this old powerhouse generated the electricity.  In fact, in was the energy from this…

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A Must-See on Route 66

Dinosaurs, caves and safari parks are the things summer road trips are made of.  Perhaps that’s why the combination still appears on an old section…

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Meat on the Menu

If there is meat on the menu, it’s often beef, pork or chicken.  Perhaps there’s some lamb or turkey, but it’s rare to find this…

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Tans and Mini Rex

Kelsie works in an industry where Tans and Mini Rex are her specialties.  Do you know what she has on her farm?

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Hagerman Fossil Beds

Many ranchers might have horses to round up their herd.  But this rancher found the horses on his ranch were thousands of years old…..

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Unusual Fenceposts

Every cattleman needs good fences to keep the herd from roaming free.  Joe Jeffrey has seen many miles of those fences and he began to…

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Finding Ways to Water the Crops

You can plant a crop in the ground, but without water it will do very little.  The farmers in this part of Nebraska knew they…

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