Tap a numbered dot and listen.
Across the Missouri into the Iowa heartland: Grenville Dodge building the Union Pacific, the Mormon handcart migration, the Adair train robbery — Jesse James's first — the Barrow Gang's shootout at Dexfield Park, and the loess hills that exist almost nowhere else on Earth.
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.