http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/09Apr15-Appamatox-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)After four years of Civil War the conflict had claimed over 630,000 lives.  It was time to begin the long…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/08Apr15-Appamatox-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most Americans know it as the place where the Civil War ended.  Although that is not technically true…it is still…

Ask an American who is the most famous architect in their country’s history and this man’s name is probably at the top of the list….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/06Apr15-Troy-Kansas-Lincoln-Visit.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)People often associate Abraham Lincoln with the states of Illinois or perhaps his birthplace in Kentucky.  But what state is…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Apr15-Troy-Kansas-Peter-Toth-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)To some, they resemble totem poles, but the works of art are more modern and quite intricate.  At least one…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/02Apr15-Troy-Kansas-Peter-Toth-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Peter Toth was just a boy when his family was forced to leave Hungary.  The event left a lasting impression…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/01Apr15-Titan-Missle-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In the 1980s there were 54 Titan II missile silos across the U.S.  Those missile carried the largest land-based nuclear…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/31March15-Titan-Missle-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)They were some of the largest and most devastating weapons ever developed and today we visit with a lady who…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/30Mar15-Titan-Missle-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Over the year’s we’ve done some of our interviews underground.  That’s the case for today’s feature…situated on “level seven” of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/08Mar15-Chiricuhua-National-Monument-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Southeastern Arizona has been a place for ranchers to graze cattle for well over a century.  However, one ranch family…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/05Mar15-Tombstone-Arizona-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a place of amazing natural beauty, with stone spires rising high into the sky.  It’s also a place of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/05Mar15-Tombstone-Arizona-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many would consider this cemetery to be a tourist attraction.  Yet it doesn’t charge admission and is a place of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Mar15-Tombstone-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)There are several cemeteries in the west called “Boot Hill.”  That’s because many of the dead died with their boots…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/02Mar15-Tomahawk-Maker-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you’ve seen a circus side show or an old Western where people threw tomahawks for sport.  It’s a competition…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/27Feb15-Tomahawk-Maker-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This young man began his enterprise at the age of only ten…and now, just a few years out of high…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/26Feb15-Eureka-Springs-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Imagine a seven story hotel in which each floor is a ground floor.  We’ll take you to the town where…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/25Feb15-Eureka-Springs-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you think water is just water, then don’t tell the folks in this small town, because it’s the water…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/24Feb15-Salton-Sea-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a lake with an elevation of over 200 feet below sea level.  It’s also a body of water with…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/23Feb15-Salton-Sea-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s the largest lake in California.  So large, in fact, it’s called a sea.  You couldn’t find this lake on…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/20Feb15-Presidents-Week-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He was the only man to serve as president and chief justice, but most people that visit his home here…