George Everette “Bud” Day’s 13-foot-tall bronze sculpture greets guests at the Sioux Gateway Airport/Brigadier General Bud Day Field entrance. Who was Bud Day? George Everette “Bud” Day of Siouxland is the only person to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Air Force Cross, the Air Force’s highest honors. With more than 70 decorations, Day is […]
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A 100-foot-high sandstone obelisk perched on a Siouxland bluff honors Sergeant Charles Floyd, the only member of the Corps of Discovery to die. He died on August 20, 1804, likely from peritonitis caused by a ruptured appendix, in present-day Sioux City, Iowa. At 21, he was one of the youngest expedition members. Several Siouxland locations
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Floyd of Rosedale, a giant stylized pig, stands guard at the Rosedale Rapids Aquatic Center in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The story behind the sculpture involves a real pig, two college football teams, a confrontation over racist behavior, and a trophy. Iowa Governor Clyde Herring and Minnesota Governor Floyd Olson each bet on the 1936 Iowa-Minnesota
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The first priority of a hotel guest at check-in is parking, next the room, and then the overall experience. Is it comfortable and clean? Is the site convenient for where the guest wishes to go? The answer is yes, at the Union Club Hotel in West Lafayette, Indiana. Amy Piper of Follow the Piper and
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Purdue University is the hottest thing for the Lafayette-West Lafayette, Indiana, metropolitan area. Purdue’s 35,000 undergraduate students help make it the region’s largest employer. However, the Boilermaker campus is not the only reason to visit Indiana’s 10th-largest city. Experience pivotal American history, art, and delicious cuisine in Lafayette and West Lafayette, Indiana. You’ll be happy
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The Tippecanoe Battlefield Park enshrines a 96-acre park with an outsized impact on American history. Shawnee statesman Tecumseh tried to build a Native confederacy that would stop White expansion into their lands. His brother’s defeat at the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe damaged his potential allies’ faith in victory. Furthermore, British support for the Indigenous nations
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Enter the world of the horse-mounted soldiers, the Big Red One, and experience early Kansas history in the four Fort Riley Museums. The US Cavalry Museum, the First Infantry Division Museum, the Custer House, and the First Territorial Capitol provide aspects of the history of Fort Riley. The fort near Junction City recently renovated the
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You have entered a time warp. An American soldier is waist-deep in the English Channel, holding his rifle above his head. Another pair crouches as they assault the beach from a landing craft. Another lies dead. The water splashes from artillery shell strikes as Rangers climb up a tower. One appears to be falling. Another
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Prepare to shiver in the winter because Cut Bank, Montana, is often the Lower 48’s coldest spot. Some places might try to hide that status, but Cut Bank embraces it. On Cut Bank’s east end, a 27-foot-tall penguin welcomes visitors. The 10,000-pound concrete bird even announces the frigid fact. Cut Bank’s choice of iconic cold animal is ironic because Cut Bank is far
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Vicksburg is known as the Key City because of its strategic location during the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln said, “Vicksburg is the key. The war can never be brought to a close until that key is in our pocket.” On July 4, 1863, Union General Ulysses S. Grant put the key into the
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