Category: Missouri
Museums Within a Museum
Did you ever imagine you might turn a collection into your own museum? This man has museums within museums. In fact, you might call him…
The Harold Bell Wright Museum
There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Harold Bell Wright. He was one of the top author’s a century ago, selling books at an…
The World’s Largest Toy Museum
The parents of every young kids, and some old ones, know they love their toys. Tom Beck set out to put as many of those…
The Largest Collection of Its Kind
What should you do with your time when you retire? Tom and Wendy Beck took an adventure that resulted in the largest collection of its…
Dick’s Five and Ten
This is the type of store you can get lost in. Not because the layout is a maze, but rather because you just don’t know…
Succeeding For Decades
An average Wal-Mart SuperCenter has 140,000 items. Steve Hartley runs a store much smaller in size, yet carries over 75,000 items, and he’s competed and…
A Prospering Business in Branson
You might think Steve is operating a business that died long ago. After all, almost all the other similar stores have disappeared. But Steve is…
Throwing Cow Pies
Most of us have heard of cow chip throwing contests. Maybe you’ve even been a part of one. The novelty event today is actually tied…
The Changing Routes of the Cattle Market
Maybe you once watched old shows like Rawhide and Gunsmoke. Those shows depicted cattle drives in the late 1800s. What you may not realize is…
Moving Cattle to Texas
In the days just after the Civil War there was a large financial incentive to move cattle from Texas to points northward. What resulted were…
