Every piece of wood found offers a window into the Earth a millions years ago. Walt Wright is the man who lives to find the pieces, examine them and tell you their age and their origin. Wright, a ...
If you have not heard of the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals, you are likely not alone. Now, there are plenty of puns about hidden gems, and how the place rocks, but I'll leave the puns ...
LAS CRUCES - Herbert Zuhl, a local philanthropist and donor to New Mexico State University, died at age 97 on Feb. 12. Herb and his wife who passed away in 2016, Joan Zuhl, donated their extensive ...
Formed 36 million years ago in an ancient flooded riverbed, the Mississippi Petrified Forest is a National Natural Landmark filled with petrified trees preserved where they naturally fell or washed up ...
That's what the 77-year-old twin brothers have been doing for five years with their Petrified Wood Gallery on the east end of Front Street, a sort of strip mall along U.S. 30 in Ogallala built to look ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. [1] See card with the object in ...
OGALLALA, Neb. (KOLN) - Many of us as kids explored the great outdoors in search of rocks or little treasures. Two twin brothers turned their interest in collecting into a fascinating destination for ...
Petrified Forest National Park, in northeastern Arizona, is known for — and named in honor of — its extensive deposits of petrified wood. So impressive and picturesque is the forest that it was used ...
The Drake Company Stone Cutting and Polishing Works once dominated the east side of the falls of the Big Sioux River. The company was started by James Haines Drake in 1883. The operation was comprised ...