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The Dalton Gang

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/10Dec09-Dalton-Gang-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Today these streets and the adjacent alley are peaceful avenues lines with small town businesses. The fall of 1892, it…

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A Hometown Holdup

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Dalton-Gang-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Bob, Emmit and Grat–three brothers that would return to their hometown to do business–but the business to be transacted would…

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The Oklahoma Land Rush

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Cherokee-Strip-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Imagine a train chugging south out of Kansas with people jumping from the cars all along its route. The reason…

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The Cherokee Strip

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Cherokee-Strip-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)It’s called the Cherokee Strip; a stretch of land in north central Oklahoma originally given to the Cherokee and later…

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Oklahoma’s First Gusher

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Bartlesville-Oklahoma-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 960.2KB)George Keeler noticed his horses wouldn’t drink from this spot on the river. The location today is an important spot…

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Black Gold in Oklahoma

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Bartlesville-Oklahoma-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 948.2KB)William Johnstone and George Keeler were looking for a way to attract the railroad to their new town. Who knew…

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Getting to FFA Contest

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Ralph-Dreesen.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)An FFA advisor was driving his students to a competition when the bus broke down with twenty eight students and…

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Freeways to Fuel

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Freeways-to-Fuel.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Dallas Hanks sees millions of easily accessible cropland in the United States that could be better utilized. In fact, we’re…

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The Roots of the 4-H Clover

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/4-H-Clover-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)The 4-H Program is now over a century old and many people recognize the familiar green clover that symbolizes those…

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A Chocolate Display

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Union-Station-Chocolate.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 1.9MB)For 90% of this agricultural product’s history, it was used as a drink. People certainly still drink it today, but…

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The Rendezvous Theatre

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Rendevous-Theatre.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 947.6KB)When hunters and trappers would gather once each season, it was often called a rendezvous. In Alaska and the Yukon…

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Food Fight!

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Food-Fight.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)If you began a food fight in school you could be headed to detention. If a farmer or rancher starts…

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Catoctin Mountain Park (Part 2)

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Catoctin Mountain Park (Part 1)

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Alaska’s Salmon

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Alaska-Riverboat-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)To many of us, salmon are just another type of fish we might eat. But to the people of Alaska,…

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Alaskan Riverboats

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Alaska-Riverboat-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)When the city of Fairbanks swelled with the Klondike gold rush in the late 1800s, a fleet of riverboats began…

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Alaska’s Riverboat Discovery

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Alaska-Riverboat-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)When you think of a riverboat captain, you probably think of life on the Mississippi, Ohio or Missouri. Instead, we’ll…

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An Alaskan Highway

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Jean-Richardson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:05 — 1.9MB)It’s a chore for most states to build and repair roads and bridges. Mary Carey fought with her state for…

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North to Alaska

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Jean-Richardson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Jean Richardson’s mother had always dreamed of moving to Alaska and teaching school there. When she did move north, the…

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Glaciers and Icebergs

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Alaska-Glaciers-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.8MB)If there is such a thing as a famous iceberg, it would probably be the chuck of ice that sunk…

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