Infinite Road
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Salt Lake CityWendover

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Narrated by The Drifter 196 km · about 101 min · 17 stories

West across the Bonneville Salt Flats: the golden spike at Promontory, the Goshute people of the dry earth, Ab Jenkins and the Mormon Meteor, Craig Breedlove's land-speed runs, Danger Cave's ten-thousand-year record, and the Wendover air base where the Enola Gay trained.

The stories

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  1. 1
    Salt Lake City, Utah

    Louis Sullivan's Dooly Building

  2. 2
    Salt Lake City, Utah

    The Iron Pulse of Promontory Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  3. 3
    Magna, Utah

    The Iron Pulse of Promontory Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  4. 4
    Magna, Utah

    The Iron Pulse of Promontory Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  5. 5
    Lake Point, Utah

    The History of Benson Mill

  6. 6
    Grantsville, Utah

    The Great Salt Lake Basin

  7. 7
    Grantsville, Utah

    The People of the Dry Earth Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  8. 8
    Skull Valley, Utah

    The People of the Dry Earth Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  9. 9
    Wendover, Utah

    The People of the Dry Earth Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  10. 10
    Wendover, Utah

    Ab Jenkins and the Mormon Meteor

  11. 11
    Wendover, Utah

    Craig Breedlove and the Salt

  12. 12
    Wendover, Utah

    The Feather River Route

  13. 13
    Wendover, Utah

    The GAPA Supersonic Missile Program

  14. 14
    Wendover, Utah

    The Tree of Utah Sculpture

  15. 15
    Wendover, Utah

    The Wendover Air Base

  16. 16
    Wendover, Utah

    Life Inside Danger Cave

  17. 17
    Wendover, Utah

    The Birth of the Speedway

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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.