Given to towns that have made an important contribution to preserving their pasts. We hope this award will encourage federal, state and local governments to continue funding such efforts, as well as alert some Western towns to the duty of rewarding its citizens and visitors alike with an outward showing of their historical relevance to this nation. 10. ST. JOSEPH, MO You might say that St. Joe is a city of beginnings and endings. The Pony Express got its start here in 1860; Jesse James died h


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