American Countryside

Many 19th century immigrants came to the U.S. on ships.  When these enterprising men arrived, they found a unique use for their boat…

The eastern end of the Pony Express was in St. Joseph, Missouri.  You can still go and see the stables yet today.  So where was the other end of the route?

If your home or business flooded, you might seek higher ground.  Here, the people didn’t go somewhere else, they just began raising all of their buildings…

It was just an ordinary field until the winter of 1862.  That’s when floodwaters pushed onto the land and a town sprang up that would become one this state’s largest cities…

You’ve heard of Noah’s flood.  This city had it worse it terms of numbers of straight days of rain.  What resulted is an event still a part of the lore of this place…

Many of us have worn the blue and gold jacket of the Future Farmers of America – the FFA.  Today I’ll take you to the town that claims the founder of the organization.  His gravestone even says as much…

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 a collector of museums…

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 amazing pace, and helping found a city in the process…

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 toys in one place as possible…

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 kind…