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History, Old West, Route 66, Ghost Towns,
Treasure Tales
& More!
When
you travel, do you often wonder what happened at "this place" in the
past? Who lived here? What were they like? How did they live
their daily lives? If that's the case for you, here at Legends of America,
you will find content-rich travel destinations of the American West, including Route 66, ghost towns, outlaws, treasure tales,
and even a few ghosts that we bump into along the way.
Filled with
both vintage and current photographs, Legends
of America focuses on small out of the way places and hidden
attractions that appeal to the nostalgic and historic minded, giving you
more than just a paragraph, we will take you there!
Empire City,
Kansas - A Living
Ghost Town -
Located less than a mile north of
Galena,
Empire City was
established in the spring of 1877 as a lead and zinc mining rival of nearby
Galena.
It's main thoroughfare was described as as so decadent that they were never
exceeded in any other frontier mining camp. In the early 1900's,
Empire City was
annexed to
Galena
and no longer officially exists.
Buried Treasure - Places to Search Around
Old Home Sites -
Treasures are out there, just
waiting to be found, and some of them may be closer to you than you think.
Older homes that date back one hundred years or more have a very good
chance of holding a
treasure; and these old homes are
in cities and towns across America.
History of the FBI -
The FBI originated from a force of Special
Agents created in 1908 by Attorney General Charles Bonaparte during the
Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.
Ta-Vwots Conquers the Sun -
The
Indian is a great story-teller.
Every tribe has its traditions, and the elderly men and women like to recount
them, for they always find listeners.
Alton, Texas
and Goatman’s Bridge -
About 3 ½ miles from the present day town of
Corinth, in Denton County, Texas,
once stood the small village of Alton, which, for a decade, served as the Denton
County seat. Today, a bridge at the long-gone ghost town is said to be haunted
by a man they called the "Goatman."
Route
66 - The often romanticized
Mother Road
inspires in many of us a nostalgic bone which niggles at something
buried deep within us. While some may see
Route 66
as a link to our parents and grandparents, others perhaps feel the
sense of freedom that the road provided to those early travelers. And then, for those of us that live continuously in the nostalgic
past, the
Mother Road is, but yet, the next adventure beyond the
Santa Fe Trail. Whatever the reason, the
Mother Road
is an experience, a feeling, a perception, a taste of sight and sound,
and a mystery that can only be resolved by driving the pavement
itself.
Early Transportation on the Great Plains
-
The earliest method of transporting goods
across the Plains must have been upon the shoulders of men. This would
change; however, to include the travois, mule trains, and
prairie schooners
as thousands of people pushed westward.
Galvanized Yankees
- These were Confederate soldiers imprisoned
during the Civil War,
who won their freedom by swearing their allegiance to the Union and
enlisting in the Union Army.
Chaco Canyon -
Home of Ancestral Puebloans
= Preserving one of America's most significant
cultural and historic areas, the
Chaco
Culture National Historical Park is remarkable for its distinctive
architecture, numerous ruins, and ancient roads. The remote and isolated
park park is located in northwestern
New Mexico,
between
Albuquerque and Farmington, in a
relatively inaccessible valley cut by the Chaco Wash.
Legends
of Kansas - As this is where we've lived for the last several
years and where I grew up, we have a whole 'nuther website focused on the
rich history of the Sunflower State.
American history is longer, larger,
more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone
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Chaco Canyon -
Home of Ancestral Puebloans
