Infinite Road
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Idaho FallsJackson

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Narrated by The Drifter 142 km · about 104 min · 19 stories

Over Teton Pass into the shadow of the range: Philo Farnsworth inventing television in Rigby, the Shoshone-Bannock homelands, the 1832 rendezvous at Pierre's Hole, the Tetons' improbably young uplift, and the elk herd that winters ten thousand strong outside Jackson.

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    Idaho Falls, Idaho

    The Origins of Eagle Rock

  2. 2
    Idaho Falls, Idaho

    Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Heritage

  3. 3
    Idaho Falls, Idaho

    The Birth of Television

  4. 4
    Idaho Falls, Idaho

    The Return of Trumpeter Swans

  5. 5
    Ririe, Idaho

    The Shoshone and the Snake

  6. 6
    Ririe, Idaho

    The Ririe Pegram Truss Bridge

  7. 7
    Ririe, Idaho

    Kelly Canyon Ski Area

  8. 8
    Ririe, Idaho

    Taming the Arid West

  9. 9
    Ririe, Idaho

    The Swan Valley Art Fair

  10. 10
    Swan Valley, Idaho

    The Bar B C Dude Ranch

  11. 11
    Swan Valley, Idaho

    The Biology of the Moose

  12. 12
    Swan Valley, Idaho

    The Rendezvous at Pierre's Hole

  13. 13
    Swan Valley, Idaho

    The Teton Range Orogeny

  14. 14
    Victor, Idaho

    The Victor Railroad Depot

  15. 15
    Victor, Idaho

    Teton Pass Engineering Challenges

  16. 16
    Wilson, Wyoming

    The Mountaineering Life of Jimmy Chin

  17. 17
    Wilson, Wyoming

    The Elk of Jackson Hole

  18. 18
    Wilson, Wyoming

    John Hoback and the Astorians

  19. 19
    Jackson, Wyoming

    The National Museum of Wildlife Art

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Where the stories come from

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.