One family can make a difference.  Stop in Cherokee, Iowa and you’ll find a museum and planetarium all there because one family wanted to honor their son.  It’s an impressive place that dates to the 1950s and it’s all free to see…

It just stands to reason that a place named Wolf Point must have something to do with wolves somewhere in its background.  That is the case here of course, but the story of what wolves is perhaps in dispute…

Sometimes just a few words can reveal the place from which you hail, even when you don’t mention the actual place.  In this region of the country it’s the phrase, “with or without” that let’s people know where you live…

In northeastern Montana you’ll find a rodeo that is over 100 years old.  With that kind of track record, you know that has to be something they’re doing well to attract large crowds for all of those years…

Comic books tell the story of larger than life characters.  In the mid 1800s, the comic books of the days took one unassuming mountain man and turned him into a frontier superhero…

Sometimes it’s not what you know but who you know.  In Kit Carson’s case, it was both that made him a well-known figure yet today…

This well-known frontiersman loved to hear the stories of those traveling west.  One day, he decided it was time to sneak away and try that life too…

Lancaster, Missouri is not a big town, but in the 1920s, the circuses came to town.  And yes, I did use the plural form of the word, because boy did the circus really come to town, for many days each year…

Some called him the Horse King of the World.  It was fitting title for a man who literally bought and sold horses and mules to locations around the globe…and then began selling another kind of animals in addition…

William Preston Hall lost both of his parents by the age of 15.  He worked hard to make a living from an early age and found he had a knack for buying and selling horse.  That skill brought him worldwide fame…