It’s billed as the “Daddy of Them All” and that it is – a rodeo so big and so grand that others have worked to emulate it.  It is a place that every cowboy hopes to compete and win on one of the biggest stages…

The railroad was looking for ways to entice people to ride the rails for one day excursions to see unique events.  But what was there to do in Cheyenne, Wyoming?  Perhaps some people thought, nothing, until a chance event took place near the depot…

Inside the Country Music Hall of Fame you’ll find a shop with roots that go all the way back to 1879.  Some things have changed, but many have not.  In a moment I’ll take you to a place where the old is still new in a sense…

Today we think of Nashville as a city for country music.  Back in the late 1800s, there was music here, but perhaps the city was known for another industry – a career that brought one family to town to help their business flourish…

The Fromm Brothers might be said to have been as “sly as a fox.”  That’s because their business plan led them to develop the silver fox, an animal that brought them fame and fortune…

I had long wanted to go see what so many people had told me about.  A small gallery of sorts in Gladbrook, Iowa where one man had been creating masterpieces that might take him over two years to create.  I’ll take you along to share what I found and meet the man behind it…

A lot of folks have hobbies.  Most of those pastimes are purely for one’s own enjoyment, but occasionally, some of those spare time projects go viral, so to speak.  That’s what happened in this small Iowa town…

Many a circus has it’s main acts and then has a sideshow to entice people to pay to see unusual acts, sites and sounds.  One of the items that draws the most attention in this museum is one of those sideshow items and the story behind it is quite interesting…

There was a great treasure hunt taking place off the shore of Lewes, Delaware.  The real treasure though was perhaps different than what was originally sought, and today visitors come to see some of what was found from a vessel that sank in 1798…

When a British ship sank off the coast of Delaware in the late 1700s, some of the crew was lost at sea.  A few survivors made it to shore and later tales emerged of those men paying for their meals and lodging with Spanish gold.  That story made this a ship that just had to be found…