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The Denver, Missouri Sleigh Works

Santa needs a sleigh to make deliveries around the world. This man makes sure he will never run out of transportation…..

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On the Scouting Patrol

Today messages can be relayed to a military patrol within a split second.  But in the 1860s, it took a scouting party to track down…

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The First Helicopter

The first operational helicopters took flight in the 1930s.   Wide spread production of the aircraft didn’t occur for another decade after that.  However, inventors…

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Osage Village

Perhaps the first Europeans to come to his part of southwest Missouri were amazing to see such a vast village on the prairie.  It was…

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The Oklahoma Land Rush

Imagine a train chugging south out of Kansas with people jumping from the cars all along its route. The reason they jumped and mass chaos…

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Governor Gravesites in Missouri

Down dirt and gravel roads, off the main highway on paths once well traveled, but now forgotten, you can find small country cemeteries. As families…

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Six Years in Pearl Harbor

For those who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, many soon found themselves assigned to duties throughout the Pacific.  But for this soldier, he found…

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A Story of Survival at Pearl Harbor

He was a survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor.  Interestingly, his ship was not hit by a torpedo, yet it sank and capsized…..

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A Six Year Tour in Honolulu

Before 1941, Pearl Harbor was a place unknown to many Americans.  That was certainly the case for Wilbur Wright, an 18 year old who was…

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Camp Floyd

For three years, 3500 soldiers served alongside one another in Utah Territory.  It was the largest military outpost in the country.  But within a matter…

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