American Countryside - The Story of America, told by the People of America

The explorer LaSalle was determined to sail to North America and find the mouth of the Mississippi River. He missed it by a few hundred miles and wound up here. This is the story of that wayward explorer and the mark he left in the New World...

Missing the Mark By a Few Hundred Miles

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The Most Well-Known Native Woman in US History

Clothing Styles That Don’t Tell the Full Story

Your Name and Side of Town

Celebrating the Early Settlers

Flowers in Everyone’s Yard

A Building Out of Place

Power In Prayer

Learning About a Battle from a Song

Keeping Their Freedom

Saving a City from Falling to the Enemy

A Battle Over Three Decades

The Biggest Grave Marker of Any Rancher

Artifacts From a Doomed Expedition

Missing the Mark By a Few Hundred Miles

The Windmill That Took Quite a Trip

Losing Traditions

The Danes Come to America

The I-80 Truck Stop Museum

A Passion for Trucking

The Largest of Its Kind

Missing for Three Days After 9/11

Surviving Two Building Collapses

An Understanding of Engineering

Turning the Wheel to Lower Manhattan

Looking Back 25 Years

The Temperance Tavern