On a Tuesday morning in September of 1992, Frank Donnelly stood at the edge of a swamp and watched his career sink into the mud. 3 days earlier, his company’s...
On the last Saturday of August 1987, the Clayton County Fair was having its best year in a decade. The grandstands were packed for the tractor pull. Over 2,000 people,...
On the second Saturday of April 1971, Earl Maddox drove his pickup truck and cattle trailer 40 miles to the Sidelia livestock auction in Pettis County, Missouri. He had $600...
On a September morning in 1987, Walter Hensley walked his fence line the way he did every Sunday, checking for breaks, looking for loose posts, making sure his 60 head...
In the spring of 1962, a seed company representative named Howard Mills drove his Chevrolet down a gravel road in Marshall County, Iowa, looking for the last hold out. Every...
On the morning of September 17th, 1944, at 06:15, Captain George Jones crouched behind a coral outcrop on the beaches of Pleu, watching his Marines fall one by one to...
On a Thursday afternoon in July of 1975, Ray Hollister was underneath a John Deere 4020 draining the oil when Dale Vincent’s shoes appeared beside the creeper. Hollister, my office...
In the spring of 1969, Harold Finch drove his pickup truck down a gravel road in Clayton County, Iowa, and parked at the edge of what locals called the most...
On a gray Saturday morning in October of 1968, about 40 people gathered at the old Hendricks farm in Clayton County, Iowa for an estate auction. Albert Hendrickx had died...
On a Saturday morning in April of 1971, Martin Cole walked into the feed store in Lancaster County, Nebraska, and bought something that made the clerk raise an eyebrow. Corn...