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Mount Pleasant’s Old Threshers Reunion
Today it is a farm event that easily doubles the size of this Midwestern city. But when it began back in 1950, they simply wanted…
The Button Capitol of the World
There’s plenty of fertile farmland along the Mississippi River at Muscatine, Iowa, but a century ago, this city was known for something else…
Cowboy King of Marriage
Tom Mix was known as the King of the Cowboys, starring in over 300 films from 1910 to 1935. He might also be the king…
Cowboy Moviestar Tom Mix
He was king of the cowboys, a real-life ranch hand that won the hearts of the nation with his amazing feats on Tony the Wonder…
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…
The Dalton Gang
Today these streets and the adjacent alley are peaceful avenues lines with small town businesses. The fall of 1892, it was the sight of citizens…
A Hometown Holdup
Bob, Emmit and Grat–three brothers that would return to their hometown to do business–but the business to be transacted would cost the lives of some…
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…
The Cherokee Strip
It’s called the Cherokee Strip; a stretch of land in north central Oklahoma originally given to the Cherokee and later opened to settlement by the…
Oklahoma’s First Gusher
George Keeler noticed his horses wouldn’t drink from this spot on the river. The location today is an important spot that draws visitors from around…