This June 5, 2013 photo shows fourth-generation pipe maker Travis Erickson holding a piece of catlinite _ a sheet of stone _ that he will carve into a traditional Native American pipe at Pipestone ...

"The stone talks to me," said Erickson, who fashioned pipe bowls into different shapes, such as horses. "Most of those pipes showed what they wanted to be." Growing up in the 1960s, Erickson recalled ...

CHAMPAIGN, lll. — In the early 1900s, an archaeologist, William Mills, dug up a treasure-trove of carved stone pipes that had been buried almost 2,000 years earlier. Mills was the first to dig the ...

PIPESTONE, Minn. Under the tall prairie grass outside this southwestern Minnesota town lies a precious seam of dark red pipestone that, for thousands of years, Native Americans have quarried and ...

A startup pipe-carving business is growing rapidly on Wayne Avenue thanks to a connection to beards and social media. Beards and pipes go together like peanut butter and jelly, or at least that's what ...

PIPESTONE NATIONAL MONUMENT, Minn.—Like his uncles and grandfather before him, Travis Erickson takes great pride in the handmade pipes he creates using red stone he digs from the ground and carves ...

PIPESTONE, Minn. — Under the tall prairie grass outside this southwestern Minnesota town lies a precious seam of dark red pipestone that, for thousands of years, Native Americans have quarried and ...