The Legend of Ted and Pat Jones

From his Missouri farm, Ted Jones built Edward Jones Investments into a business empire, but he and his wife Pat were also crusading conservationists whose legacy includes willing the country’s longest recreational trail into existence. Now, the remarkable couple are the subject of a new biography, Trail Blazers: The Free-Spirited Extraordinary Lives of Ted and Pat Jones. Dan Burkhardt, co-founder of Magnificent Missouri and Ted’s longtime friend and employee, joins Missouri State Director Adam McLane on It’s in Our Nature to give us the backstory of the book as well as personal memories. Listen to learn the secret of Ted’s soup cocktail.