Angela DiLoreto
On May 31, 1834, William Sublette laid the foundation log for a trading post at the confluence of the Laramie and North Platte Rivers, then left his partner Robert Campbell behind with thirteen men to finish building it while he pushed on to that year’s rendezvous. Passing the same spot days later, a missionary named … Read more
Independence, Missouri sits about 30 minutes east of Kansas City, and for most visitors it reads as a suburb. Spend a morning at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and an afternoon at the Truman Home and it becomes something else entirely — one of the most quietly affecting presidential history stops in the country, … Read more
Kansas City has a habit of surprising you with stops that don’t look like much from the outside. The Money Museum at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City is one of them — free, low-key, and a stop that consistently surprises people who weren’t planning to go. A Regional Bank With Real History The … Read more
The most interesting piece of Kansas City‘s outlaw history doesn’t have a museum. It has a parking lot and a sign most people drive past without slowing down. But follow that thread out to St. Joseph — about an hour north — and the story gets considerably more substantial. Red Crown Tavern: A Parking Lot … Read more
In the summer of 1881, a railroad survey crew working south of the Black Hills noticed something unusual: warm water flowing from the ground at a consistent temperature, year-round, regardless of the season. Within a year, entrepreneurs had platted a town around it. Within a decade, that town had sandstone hotels, bathhouses, and visitors arriving … Read more
Kansas City BBQ looks simple from a distance — a food category you can rank, compare, and check off a list. Spend a few days actually eating your way through it, and that framing falls apart fast. Kansas City BBQ isn’t one scene. It’s a set of overlapping traditions — some over a century old, … Read more
