American Countryside

We’ve all seen them.  Many of us played with them as a toy.  Perhaps you didn’t know it’s origin and that there is a museum for it?

There’s a smell coming from the place Pete works.  It’s an odor that actually attracts rather than repels people, for those smells are from some products loved by many people across the country and around the globe…

There was a time when cattle ranchers and sheep herders clashed, sometimes violently, in the western U.S.  This town saw it’s share of unfriendly encounters as well, but today the sheep and specifically the dogs that help shepherd them are the focus of a huge annual event that can bring competitors from around the world…

In the fall of 1879, an unfortunate set of events led to a clash between Native Americans and white settlers in northwestern Colorado.  Several men were killed and the way of life changed here forever…

In western Colorado you’ll find the town of Meeker.  It’s the surname of a family sent here in the 1870s for a job with the federal government…

He is a man of legend…a man whose story may be larger than life…a renegade who history now looks upon as a catalyst to the civil war.  It’s Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia and John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal…

It was the site of events that would change the history of this nation and in turn influence the world.  While the town is now gone, it’s impact is not…

Wendover, Utah is home to a closed air base that still has many features of the days when it was in operation.  In fact, this was the base that crews used to train for a mission to use the first nuclear weapon in war…

As World War II raged in Europe and in the Pacific, scientists worked to develop a nuclear weapon that could end that war.  Part of the testing took place here, on the western edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert…

When you head west from Salt Lake City you cross the Salt Lake Desert and the first town you’ll come to is on the state line with Nevada.  That town, Wendover, is important in the story of America…