If you, your kids or even your grandkids have seen the movie Cars, then you probably remember the Cozy Cones.  They’re patterned after a real-life motel of concrete wigwams...

If you, your kids or even your grandkids have seen the movie Cars, then you probably remember the Cozy Cones.  They’re patterned after a real-life motel of concrete wigwams...

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American Countryside

Telling the stories behind the people, places and events from across the American countryside.

Telling the stories behind the people, places and events from across the American countryside.

American Countryside - An Amazing Journey

Andrew McCrea travels coast-to-coast to meet people you may have never heard of, with a story you'll never forget.  Hear from the people and places that have played important parts of our past and present.

Andrew McCrea travels coast-to-coast to meet people you may have never heard of, with a story you'll never forget.&nbsp; Hear from the people and places that have played important parts of our past and present.

The Wigwam Hotel

George Strait once sang that he had some ocean front property in Arizona and if you’d buy that he’d throw the golden gate in free.  This Arizona town isn’t exactly on the ocean, but much of its existence depended on it...

George Strait once sang that he had some ocean front property in Arizona and if you’d buy that he’d throw the golden gate in free.  This Arizona town isn’t exactly on the ocean, but much of its existence depended on it...

How the Ocean Affected Yuma

Before bridges crossed rivers, communities often relied upon ferries to carry people and supplies.  In some cases, those ferry operators were able to build thriving businesses.  Two such men lived in the middle of a vast desert...

Before bridges crossed rivers, communities often relied upon ferries to carry people and supplies.  In some cases, those ferry operators were able to build thriving businesses.  Two such men lived in the middle of a vast desert...

A Ferry in the Middle of a Desert

Yuma, Arizona is in the Sonoran dessert.  The annual average rainfall is about three inches per year.  So it is a bit ironic that it is a river helped build a city of great wealth in the southwest...

Yuma, Arizona is in the Sonoran dessert.  The annual average rainfall is about three inches per year.  So it is a bit ironic that it is a river helped build a city of great wealth in the southwest...

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