Meghan Saar
Stories by Meghan Saar
Trains, Mules and Horses
President Arthur's journey to Yellowstone featured in an impressive photograph auction.
Trinidad, Colorado
Trinidad, Colorado, can boast its town founder's home is still around, in the Victorian style of its original owners.
Tombstone, Arizona
In 1877, Ed Schieffelin discovered silver at a site where soldiers from Camp Huachuca warned all he would find was his tombstone.
A Song of Praise for a Forgotten Folklore Collector
This book is an offering of the Indians, and I am only the recorder.
Grass Valley, California
Once a small settlement of fortune hunters who arrived just after the Gold Rush to California began in 1848.
Frank History
That our mailman didn't hoard some of the crazy packages we got from Phil Frank always surprised us.
Denton, Texas
Founded in 1857 as a county seat, Denton grew slowly until the railroad reached town in the 1880s.
Wyeth Sets Record with Hickok Oil
The most famous Poker hand of all time, Aces and Eights, might have won the pot, had the gambler not gotten shot in the back of the head.
Audrey Hepburn vs. Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton's got a costume that beats out most of what passes for collectible in the Hollywood memorabilia category so far this year.
Winnemucca, Nevada
Trappers and Basque sheepherders arrived in Winnemucca in the 1830's, but a Wild Bunch robbery put it on the Old West map.