In the years leading up to the Civil War, counties adjacent to the Missouri-Kansas border saw bloodshed as pro and antislavery forces conducted guerrilla attacks…

Jim says he’s in the treasure hunting business.  He’s looking for items that are worth tens of thousands of dollars and they’re buried in the…

George Strait once sang that he had some oceanfront property in Arizona and if you’d buy that he’d throw the Golden Gate in free. This…

War sometimes touches the lives of innocent people – citizens not involved in the conflict, yet caught in the middle of the battle.  That was…

It was the fall of 1862 and tensions ran high in northeast Missouri.  Local Union and Confederate troops had skirmished and local citizens were keenly…

Although his time here in North Dakota was not long if measured in numbers of days…the quality of that time and the impact it made…

To date, no U.S. president has been born in North Dakota…but this commander-in-chief experienced a rebirth there that he said was the reason he one…

In Quartzite, Arizona you can find the grave of Hi Jolly.  It’s the Americanized name of a man responsible for transporting many of the supplies…

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….

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…