Plains

The endless prairie all around is so bereft of people and buildings that coming up on St. Stephenie Scandinavian Church from any direction is a joy, even…

The prairie grass was very tall, spread wide as the eye could see, an immense, shaggy hide over undulating hills, grass so tall and thick that it was a…

As late as the 1930s locals still found bones right here, on a flat spot of ground in what was once a wide river bed. Bones--the skeletons of ponies that…

Think Julie Andrews. Think "The Hills are Alive." It's unlikely the Sisters ever cavorted so sweetly amid the hills, but who knows? They loved their…

Cathedral of the PrairieA couple of farmers don't just get together over coffee at the Coop and decide to build a cathedral like St. Anthony of Padua,…

So give me a home where the buffalo roamJust get me the heck out of this sod house. You know, I used to say there weren't any great songs about sod houses…

Out in the middle of nowhere, an old white frame building is all that remains of a heart-felt dream that, as an answer to prayer, opened its doors in 1893…

I’m Mark Munger and you are listening to Check it Out.A ship set in ice. An axe. A giant disappearing into arctic waters. Such are the uncommon beginnings…

Maybe you've heard. As unlikely as it seems, trees may be our saviors. Researchers have determined we could plant 2.5 billion acres of new trees without…

Tall, dark, and handsome? --all of that. Virgil Earp and his brothers were big buffalo-shouldered guys who could make every man bellied up to the bar feel…