Travel & Preservation
Toppenish, Washington

Toppenish, Washington

The central Washington town of Toppenish came into being when a Yakama Indian named Josephine Lillie Parker sold part of her federal land allotment...

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Lincoln, Nebraska

Lincoln, Nebraska

Lincoln’s origin story doesn’t involve an Indian uprising or a whisky-soaked shootout. The town was founded as Lancaster in 1856, and the reason was...

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Saratoga, Wyoming

Saratoga, Wyoming

The name Fenimore Chatterton doesn’t ring many bells in Western history, but it does around Saratoga, Wyoming. The businessman and politician...

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Oregon at 160

Oregon at 160

When wealthy trapper Ewing Young died in 1841 in what is Oregon today, he had no apparent heirs, and there was no way to determine how to handle his...

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Kingsville, Texas

Kingsville, Texas

No Hollywood writer could invent the life of Richard King. He was born in New York in 1824 into an Irish family so poor that, at age 9, he...

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