WEST NORTH CENTRAL

This region includes; Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota.

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Confederate Eyeglass

A contributor in Terre Haute, Indiana has a tiny brass eyeglass that, when peered through, reveals an image of Confederate president Jefferson Davis...More

Crazy Horse

Is this the only photograph of a Native American legend?...More

Koranic School Book

A History Detectives viewer in Mulvane, Kansas, owns a 200-year-old schoolbook with a startling secret...More

Lewis and Clark Cane

A Minnesota man has an old wooden cane that has been in his family for as long as he can remember...More

Long Expedition

An Omaha, Nebraska, resident holds land along the Missouri River, where archaeologists are currently digging an encampment from the "Long Expedition"...More

Mankato Spoon

What does this delicate silver spoon have to do with the largest mass execution in American history?...More

Poison Pin

A miniaturist recently rediscovered a purchase he had made at an auction several years before....More

Red Cloud Letter

How was a leader of the Lakota people connected with the controversial sculptor of Mount Rushmore? ...More

Seth Eastman Painting

Is this painting an original depiction of Native American life from one of the premiere painters of the American West? ...More

Unwed Mothers' Home

The only reminder one woman has of her birth parents is a medallion of the Virgin Mary that was attached to her diaper when she was presented from a home for unwed mothers to her adoptive parents...More

USS Olympia Glass

Could this farmhouse door have sailed into battle in one of the country's greatest naval victories? ...More