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The Story of Those Yellow Trucks
Depending on where you live, you may know this company, not by where it is located but rather by where its yellow trucks happen to…
Industry Impacting Southwest Minnesota
The land that surrounds a town often has a big impact on the types of industries that will spring up within the city limits. That…
San Juan Historic Site
This impressive fort has stood watch over the Atlantic for nearly 400 years. For some of those sentrys who scanned the ocean for invading navies,…
Amazing History in Puerto Rico
If you are looking for one of the first places Europeans explorers touched land in what is today the United States, you may need to…
Kafir Corn
You’ve probably never heard of Kafir Corn. However, turn back the clock a century and you may have been hearing about it on national radio. …
Drought and Grasshoppers
The first settlers to this region began to farm the land, but drought and grasshoppers made life miserable for most. But just when things seemed…
Near the Santa Fe Trail
The early trails that moved settlers from east to west often charted courses that helped reduce the number of obstacles in their path. Those trails…
Searching for Gold in Kansas
If you are a Spanish explorer searching the New World for gold, the place you’d come look of course would be the state of Kansas. …
The Quivira of Kansas
The area around Lyons, Kansas in the central part of the Sunflower State may appear to be sparsely populated by national standards. However, about 500…
The Backcountry Horsemen
They are called the Back Country Horseman. Their work is something that may have impacted you and you never realized it. And once you hear…