Thomas Whitmore carved his first foot into the limestone hillside on a Tuesday morning in June 1885, and by noon half the men…
Samuel Brandt bought the steamship hull sections in Omaha for $11 in April 1879. And by the time he’d hauled them 300 miles…
Thomas Henrikson discovered the dugout beneath his barn by accident in March 1883, three months after he’d bought the homestead from a widow…
Spring of 1886, Dakota territory, 12 miles south of what would become Bismar. A German immigrant named Friedrich Vber announced he was going…
December 1872. The Montana territory stretched cold and unforgiving under a slate gray sky, and Henrik Bjunstat stood at the mouth of a…
March 12th, 1978. Studio 1 at NBC in Burbank, California. 300 people packed into the audience, ready to watch America’s most beloved late…
Lucille Ball was in the middle of telling a joke on the Tonight Show when a seven-year-old boy sitting between her and Johnny…
Johnny Carson walked off his own set when Frank Sinatra arrived. Frank stood there speechless, and Johnny never returned to that studio again.…
When Clint Eastwood walked onto the Tonight Show stage on October 12th, 1973, Johnny Carson did something he had never done in 3,427…
Johnny Carson was taping the Tonight Show in front of 400 people when a producer rushed onto the set with a message that…