Scenes from Lubbock, Texas
Prairie Dog Town Gotta stop and see Prairie Dog Town while visiting Lubbock – especially since it might not be there for long. It was established in the 1930s by K.N. Clapp, who was alarmed …
Category: History
Roswell, New Mexico is Out of this World!
We went to Roswell, New Mexico preparing to be amused, and we were. It is all aliens, all the time. Want a burrito? There’s an alien eating a burrito out front. Want a car wash? …
International UFO Museum and Research Center
Let’s face it, there’s only one reason you’d be in Roswell, New Mexico, and that’s to figure out what happened in 1947. Was there a UFO or not? Our first stop in solving “The Roswell …
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
Nineteen sovereign Pueblo nations can be found in New Mexico today. Their ancestral lands once stretched into Colorado and Arizona, home to magnificent dwellings like Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. Despite centuries of colonization, Pueblo …
The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave
Think long and hard before you go to a Buffalo Bill site, because once you got to one, you’ll find you need to go to them all. Thus it was that shortly after visiting the …
Wyoming State Capitol
Cheyenne is one of the state capital cities that is nowhere near the center of the state. It wasn’t even a dot on the map until the builders of the transcontinental railroad ended up there …
Passing Through Southwest Nebraska
The Potter Sundry The Potter Sundry in Potter, Nebraska, claims to be the home of the Tin Roof Sundae. I’m not here to argue with any excuse for ice cream. It’s a small cafe with …
Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park Museum
So I thought Buffalo Bill was a train robber or some other kind of wild west outlaw, but mostly didn’t think anything much about him at all. But that didn’t stop us from visiting the …
South Dakota State Capitol
Pierre, S. Dakota, is a long way from everywhere. But it is in the center of South Dakota, which is why it won out over several other cities when the location of the capital for …
James J. Hill and the Short Squeeze of 1901
Another fun fact about James J. Hill that we learned from our visit to the James J. Hill House is the role Hill played in the biggest “short squeeze” in the twentieth century. Hill, with …