Today, the Golden Gate Bridge has come to symbolize San Francisco, and it is the universally recognizable icon of that great port city. Although conceived as a way to move people from place to place, it has become a destination in its own right. Spanning the Golden Gate Strait, a place of stunning natural beauty,…
Bridging the Golden Gate Strait: Joseph Strauss and the Building of the Golden Gate Bridge
February 2, 2023
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Profiles in History: Floyd Gibbons: The Adventurous Reporter
Floyd Gibbons (1887–1939) loved to write about his experiences because his experiences were often exhilarating. Growing up at the turn of the 20th century, Gibbons was born at the perfect time for great adventures. In a way, he hastened the approach of his adventures when he was expelled from Georgetown University. Failing to obtain his…
Profiles in History: Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Man Who Understood Sea Power
January 21, 2023
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Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914) was born in West Point, New York, and was the son of a professor of civil and military engineering at the U.S. Military Academy. Despite his proximity to the military academy, it was the Navy that transfixed the young Mahan. After attending Columbia College in New York City, he was recommended…
How to Take Control of Your Financial Destiny, from Money Expert Jaspreet Singh
As a child of immigrants, Jaspreet Singh grew up thinking that success meant being a doctor or a lawyer. But while attending college and law school, the true meaning of success changed for him—when he experimented with launching several businesses, including an event planning company, and discovered a penchant for entrepreneurship. But after he was…
Gene Autry: How ‘America’s Favorite Singing Cowboy’ Exemplified the Unique Entrepreneurial Spirit of America
January 19, 2023
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Gene Autry’s life story reads like a great American novel. Known as “America’s favorite singing cowboy,” the country star paired his entrepreneurial spirit with his love of entertaining audiences and became one of the country-western genre’s most unique and beloved figures. After amassing an audience with a slew of performances throughout the 1920s, he signed…
History Off the Beaten Path: Slice of Life
While traveling last summer from the East Coast to Montana and back in our 1969 restored Shasta camper, my husband and I spent hours playing a history trivia game. One of the questions was, “Who invented sliced bread?” Neither of us knew, but we learned that a man named Otto Rohwedder was behind the machine…
The Sheriff Who Cleaned Up Deadwood: Seth Bullock
Seth Bullock was not a well-known frontiersman prior to the 2004 HBO television series “Deadwood,” which featured him as its main character. However, historians before and since the show’s brief three-season run have always recognized the sheriff as fascinating. Portrayed on the show as a decent man whose inherent goodness was often contradicted by a…
This Family-Owned Seed Company Is Telling—and Saving—the Stories of Heirloom Seeds
The Persian melon, a honey-sweet, orange-fleshed variety dating back to its namesake empire and the progenitor of all American cantaloupes, was a standard in American gardens for two centuries, but it is now virtually unseen and in need of rescue. Montana lavender clay corn, with its striking, deep purple kernels, was blended by a Montanan…
Before Everest | Documentary
January 18, 2023
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Edmund Hillary climbed Everest but Earle Riddiford, the filmmaker’s father, got him there in the first place. So when Hillary wrote damning remarks about him, Riddiford’s family was upset. …
Is Your Family Prepared for a Crisis? The Survival Mom Wants to Help
For Lisa Bedford, getting prepared is about worrying less, not more. The suburban mom of two knows well the panic of facing an uncertain future—and realizing the extent of one’s unpreparedness. Following the 2008 recession, she surfaced from her own fear-fueled, first-time deep-dive into the world of survival and preparedness determined to help others like…
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