Neighbors laughed at his underground shelter beneath his cabin until his firewood stayed dry. October rain hit the Willilamett Valley like it always…
North Dakota Territory, October 1883. Lars Hendrickson, a Norwegian immigrant who’d claimed 160 acres near what would become Pembina, was doing something his…
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.…