We’ve all heard that some things are just too good to be true.  That’s in a sense the theme to one man’s collection, It’s a...

Most of us are familiar with the movie Hoosiers, the story of a small Indiana school that wins the state basketball championship against tremendous odds. ...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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. ...