DG Martin Interview
Did you miss DG Martin and I visiting on the bottom of the Lost Sea? Then download the podcast. Click on the link below to get to DG Martin’s podcasts. Then search “Harberts”.
Click here to get to DG’s podcasts.
Listen to Your Rattle Snake Dinner
Step 1: Uncoil snake
Hays, Kansas
Hungry? Then click here to listen to Marvin Pfannenstiel fry up a Kansas rattler…
Fossil Posts and Lawyers
Terry Gottschalk
Logan, Kansas
This week on RiverEarth.com, Kansas fence builder Terry Gottschalk explains two-wire Angus cattle, car crash lawyers and fossil-embedded fenceposts. Confused? Click here to listen why you should consider five-strand fence in this country….
Reptile Roadblocks
Skull of a 17-foot roadblock
Traveling across the Great Plains, various reptiles like snakes and tortoises have held up progress. But a 17-foot turtle….?
Other times, mule Polly and I linger by choice in communities that catch our fancy. To visit a few of the ones we’ve spoken in, click here to go to the Appearances page….
Tales from a Soddie
George McKillip: 92 years old
Sod house dweller
A house built from dirt? Click here to listen to George McKillip explain…
Grasshopper
Free Download: “Manifold Menus”, A Cookbook on How to Cook on a Locomotive Engine
The Iron Caterpillar
Outside Seneca, NE
Following the BNSF railroad through the Nebraska Sandhills, I wonder what life’s like aboard the rumbling iron caterpillar. Meet Gene Hansen, who’ll tell you what it tastes like…. Also, mule Polly and I are still in a signin’ and shippin’ mood.
Signing a copy of the “Too Proud” travel book atop the Harlan County Dam
South of Republican City, Nebraska
Bean Can Boot Repair
How it all started
North of Hyannis, Nebraska
I noticed the hole in mule Polly’s boot the day we missed creaming a tortoise by a hoof-width. Click here for a bodgey repair story…
Get a Book Straight off the Mule Wagon
A yellow mule wagon rolls into your town and you think, “hmmmm…. Wonder what he’s selling?”
Hmmmm…..
Anselmo, NE
Problem is, there’s a gap between what folks think they can buy off a mule wagon – and what you can actually carry aboard an equine-powered machine. I roll into a town like Anselmo, Nebraska, and folks wander up with a fist-full of dollars saying, “Mister, I’d like a hotdog.” or, “Mister, I’d like an ice cream.”
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Get a Book and Mule Fuel Bookmark Straight off the Mule Wagon!
Breaking News: The RiverEarth.com General Store has moved aboard that Lost Sea wagon for the next 6 weeks. That’s right, here’s you chance to get signed books, DVDs and a Great Plains bookmark straight off the Lost Sea Expedition wagon….
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