Wild West & Folklore
This famous American folk hero was a real frontiersman who died defending the Alamo in 1836.
Davy Crockett
He was the only President to serve more than two terms, leading the country through the Great Depression and World War II.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
This 1,912-mile continuous railroad line, completed in 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah, connected the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
Transcontinental Railroad
Invented by Levi Strauss in 1873, this durable piece of denim clothing was originally made for California miners.
Blue Jeans
Established in 1926, this iconic highway is famously known as the "Main Street of America" or "Mother Road."
Route 66
This legendary 19th-century sharp-shooter was the star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
Annie Oakley
This President's face is carved into Mount Rushmore alongside Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.
Theodore Roosevelt
This Scottish-American industrialist led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.
Andrew Carnegie
Alexander Graham Bell changed global communication forever by patenting this device in 1876.
the telephone
his massive chasm in Arizona, carved by the Colorado River, became an official National Park in 1919.
Grand Canyon
In American folklore, this giant lumberjack traveled with a massive blue ox named Babe.
Paul Bunyan
He was the first President to live in the White House, moving in near the end of his term in 1800.
John Adams
He became America's first billionaire after standardizing and monopolizing the oil industry with his company, Standard Oil.
John D. Rockefeller
Ruth Wakefield invented this classic American baked treat in 1938 at the Toll House Inn.
the chocolate chip cookie
Visitors flock to this park in Wyoming to see "Old Faithful," a highly predictable geothermal geyser.
Yellowstone National Park
This standard piece of standard gold-mining equipment, using mesh screens to separate sediment from gold, became iconic during the 1849 California Gold Rush.
gold pan (or rocker box)
This towering 6-foot-4 leader was the first U.S. President to wear a beard while in office, introducing the look in 1861.
Abraham Lincoln
This iconic New York City skyscraper, completed in 1931, stood as the world's tallest building for nearly 40 years.
Empire State Building
Pharmacist John Pemberton invented this famous carbonated beverage in Atlanta in 1886 as a patent medicine.
Coca-Cola
This 444-mile scenic parkway follows an ancient Native American trail linking Nashville, Tennessee, to Natchez, Mississippi.
Natchez Trace Parkway
This fierce 30-year conflict between the U.S. government and Apache leaders like Cochise and Geronimo took place primarily in these two southwestern states.
Arizona and New Mexico
He is the only U.S. President who was never elected as either President or Vice President.
Gerald Ford
This massive public works project on the Colorado River, dedicated by FDR in 1935, was originally called the Boulder Dam.
Hoover Dam
In 1928, the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri became the first to sell this product, sparking a famous idiom about great inventions.
sliced bread
This Florida wetland ecosystem is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States.
the Everglades