Esther Hobart Morris lived in a rough mining town in Wyoming at a time when women were expected to stay quiet and remain at home. Still, in 1870, Esther Hobart Morris became the first woman in the United States to serve as a justice of the peace. Her appointment shocked many people across America. Newspapers…
Idaho doesn’t look like the moon. Except in one odd corner of the state…where it does. Craters of the Moon National Monument is in south-central Idaho. It is a vast field of black lava, twisted rock, and deep caves. Astronauts once trained here. Scientists still scratch their heads about it. And almost no one outside…
Later in life, he was: Adolph Coors. He was born: Adolf Hermann Josef Kuhrs. He was 21 years old, penniless, and hiding in the hold of a ship crossing the Atlantic. He could not speak English. He had no plan, only ambition. When that ship docked and he stepped onto American soil in 1868, few…
