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Recently Posted American Stories
Woman who Saved the Elks
For more than half a century, Mardy Murie lived beneath the spidery ice crystals and the ghost trees of the Grand Tetons. Some say she is a treasure in these mountains. She and her husband, Olaf, wrote their names across the history of conservation in America. They came to the Tetons in 1927. Raised a family in the wilderness following the dwindling elk herd. Their research saved the elks for all time.
Combat Comic
Bobby Henline is the kind of guy who could make the faces on Mount Rushmore grin. He fought on the front lines in Iraq during Dessert Storm. Went back after 9/11 three more times. Then a roadside bomb blew off his face. He survived. What’s he doing now? Making us laugh.
Honeymoon Trail
Memory is too fragile a thread from which to hang history. The old west is different from what we see in the movies. It was America’s forge, and the pioneers who passed through it had spirits of hammered steel. Mormon settlers in northeastern Arizona...
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KEN BURNS
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- SAVANNAH GUTHRIE
“Throughout his remarkable career Bob Dotson has searched for the real essence of America – not by interviewing the so-called famous but by seeking out those unnoticed people we pass by every day. Dotson is a national treasure for caring enough to listen.”
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