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If you're new to hunting, or are giving some thought to taking it up, it may be worth considering an air rifle, rather than a conventional rifle.

Though the town of Windthorst never really became a reality, the magnificent church that was the centerpiece of an entire community is very real and well worth a trip to Ford County in southwestern Kansas.

First published in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath remains one of the most enduring novels of the American experience. Steinbeck follows the Joad family as they travel Route 66 from Oklahoma to California, driven west by economic collapse and environmental disaster.

In 1926, U.S. Route 66 stitched together small towns, big cities, farms, deserts, dreams, and desperation. Over the next century, the Mother Road became more than pavement—it became a symbol of movement and reinvention, of loss and possibility, of who gets to travel freely and who is pushed to the margins.

In 1928 the commissioners of Kit Carson County, on Colorado’s Central Plains, made a forward-thinking decision that at the time was met with disapproval and dismay by many of their constituents. They purchased a carousel that had operated for many years at Elitch Gardens Amusement Park in Denver.

In the Sherman County Depot Museum in Stratford, Texas there hangs a plaque which honors a citizen who literally ‘went the second mile’ in his attempt to save the lives of a stranded family during the terrible snow storm of February 11 and 12, 1948.

The first settlers on the Great Plains had little time for fun amidst the hardscrabble toil that made up their daily existence. Yet out of this era came some of our most precious, and now fading, traditions. Box suppers, church socials, spelling bees, and barn dances each held the common essentials of food, music and neighbors that made life on the plains not only bearable, but also downright enjoyable. And of those events, none was more anticipated than the dances.

On this Veterans' Day holiday, we remember those who served, as well as their families, who also share in the sacrifice of military service, with this archived conversation from Storycorps' One Small Step project.

The great trail drives that brought Texas cattle north to Dodge City were generally considered a thing of the past by 1890. But a half century later an event in Dodge City brought world-wide attention to the cowtown once known as “Babylon of the Plains”.

Early day practitioners of the healing arts were in short supply and great demand on the Great High Plains