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Civil War Veterans Home

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Confederate-Memorial-Home-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 945.5KB)The Civil War ended in 1865, but how long did the veterans of that war live? There is some controversy…

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Confederate Memorial Home

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Confederate-Memorial-Home-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 949.0KB)Today veteran’s hospitals and retirement homes are common place, but in the years after the Civil War, grassroots efforts began…

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Benjamin Franklin, Inventor

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Bejamin-Franklin-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.7KB)His first invention involved a kite–and perhaps his most famous discovery involved one too…

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1943 FFA American Star Farmer Wayne Boothe

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Wayne-Boothe-Star-Farmer-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 949.2KB)Every year the National FFA selects one student as the Star Farmer of America. It’s quite an honor. Today we…

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Accidental Family Farm History in Cordell, Oklahoma

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Wayne-Booth-Star-Farmer-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 949.6KB)Wayne Booth resides in Cordell, Oklahoma thanks to a snowstorm over a century ago. The story of that storm and…

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A Daughter of Alcatraz’s Story

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Alcatraz-Daughter.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.4KB)It was the most famous of escape attempts at Alcatraz. The fact that no one ever saw the inmates alive-or…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Nevada Podcast

Four Decades Work of the Cold War

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Nevada-Test-Site-2-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.1KB)During Troy Wade’s four decades at the Nevada Test Site, he went from designing weapons to stop the Russians to…

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The Nevada Test Site

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Nevada-Test-Site-1-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 955.1KB)Deep under the earth just northwest of Las Vegas, Troy Wade worked to win the cold war…

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Salt and Pepper Museum

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Salt-and-Pepper-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.3KB)Here’s the story of a woman who built her own museum–by accident at the beginning, but one that people from…

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Mark Twain

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Mark-Twain-Birthday.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.1KB)Little remains of the town of Florida, Missouri–or depending on how you view history–a lot remains of Florida, Missouri. While…

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Pawnee Bill’s Wild West Show

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Pawnee-Bill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.3KB)It may have seemed this famous western showman had married the wrong woman. After all, his bride was a city…

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A Cowboy Named Gordon Lillie

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Pawnee-Bill-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.3KB)Many of us had childhood heroes, and for Gordon it was the famous showman Buffalo Bill. What he might never…

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A Cattle Drive in the Grand Hall of Union Station

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Union-Station-History-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 958.2KB)If you’ve been around cattle for much of your life, you know there are times when one head in the…

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The Union Station Massacre

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Union-Station-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.3KB)Some say this event was the spark that created today’s FBI. It was a crime that made national headlines and…

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Union Station

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Union-Station-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.7KB)Grand Central Station is the largest train station in the country when measured by the actual size of the building….

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Jim Thorpe

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Jim-Thorpe-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.7KB)In 1912 he was proclaimed the world’s greatest athlete and some of his Olympic records from that year still stood…

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A Star Athlete

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Jim-Thorpe-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 955.1KB)When you think of historically great collegiate football programs, names like Notre Dame, Penn State and Alabama might come to…

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Palm Springs, California

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Palm-Springs-Tour.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.1KB)Before Palm Springs was a resort town–before Palm Springs was really even a town, for that matter; movie stars began…

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Date Farming

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Date-Farming-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.8KB)Some farmers need expensive, high tech equipment to harvest their crops. This crop requires a very low-tech method of harvest,…

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Farming the Trees

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Date-Farming-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 950.6KB)David’s farm is just 2 ½ acres in size…but that does not mean he’s not busy. In fact, the crop…

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