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 ...

Petrified wood is found in many locations on all seven continents; so, why has no one used petrified wood for tree-ring science? The answer is that no one has succeeded, until now. And why should ...

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 ...

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 ...