Tap a numbered dot and listen.
West along the Missouri into the badlands: the Northern Pacific's push, the Black Sea German homesteaders, Salem Sue — the world's largest Holstein — the Hell Creek fossil beds, the Marquis de Morès' doomed beef empire, and Roosevelt's Maltese Cross cabin.
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.