Clint Eastwood launched his acting career in 1959 when the television show, Rawhide, turned the cattle drives of the mid-1800s into a hit series that ran for eight seasons with 200+ episodes. And Sedalia, MO, was the historical cowtown destination with its stockyards...
The 1920s era was full of glitz and glam. Women got flapper dresses and the vote, washing machines and the diaphragm. The first radio station blasted out songs in Pittsburg in 1920, and within three years 500 stations across the nation had joined this entertainment...
In the 1920s there were 10 million cars in America, but train travel still provided most of us with our only opportunity to travel beyond our immediate communities. In fact, it was the golden age of train travel, with 260,000 miles of train tracks by 1930. Amazingly,...