http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/28Feb24-Czech-and-Slovak-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1800s many immigrant groups began to move from Europe to the United States.  Specific groups of people would…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/27Feb24-Prescott-Frontier-Days-Rodeo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you come to watch this rodeo, you’ll most likely be sitting in seats that were first used in 1913. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/26Feb24-Prescott-Frontier-Days-Rodeo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Where was the first rodeo held?  You’ll find some debate on the actual beginning point of the sport with several…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/23Feb24-Heavener-Runestone-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a long way from Norway to Oklahoma.  That’s precisely why this story seems so hard to believe.  However, could…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/22Feb24-Heavener-Runestone-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can find ancient carvings of Native Americans in many parts of the country.  So when early settlers happened upon…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/21Feb24-Heavener-Runestone-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you want to learn the story of ancient Vikings you would of course travel to Scandinavia…or Oklahoma of course. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/20Feb24-Jerome-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many a mining boom town has experienced boom and bust.  When this town was just about gone it began to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/19Feb24-Grant-Boyhood-Home.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Presidential birthplaces are visited by many tourists each year.  But no home may have quite the story as this small…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/16Feb24-Jerome-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was once one of the largest cities in the Arizona Territory.  Miners made there way to town to get…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/15Feb24-Seattle-Washington-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This June 6th fire might have been the best thing that ever happened to Seattle, but it sure made shopping…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/14Feb24-Seattle-Washington-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today’s topic is toilets and chuckholes.  You may have never thought those items to be worthy of a feature until…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/13Feb24-Seattle-Washington-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I recently had a chance to visit the city of Duwamps, Washington.  You may have never heard that name, but…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/12Feb24-Heath-Bar.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us have a favorite candy bar…or maybe we can’t narrow it to just one, but have a few. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/09Feb23-US-Marshal-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Who makes sure that the scientists of Antarctica are accountable to the law?  It may sound like a strange question,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/08Feb23-US-Marshal-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are the longest tenured federal law enforcement group in the United States.  Their important work has played a critical…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/07Feb23-Sumner-Iowa-Vacant-Building-Tour.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Vacant buildings can be eyesores, but they can also be opportunities.  So how do you make it the latter instead…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/06Feb23-Warren-Minnesota-UFO-Police-Car-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Warren, Minnesota you’ll find a 1970s vintage sheriff’s car on display.  What may be a bit unusual is that…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/05Feb23-Warren-Minnesota-UFO-Police-Car-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was late August of 1979 and there was a large, yet strange light near the rural intersection where a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/02Feb23-Father-of-the-Army-Jeep.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Between the time of World War I and World War II, most armies moved away from the use of horses…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/01Feb23-Warren-Minnesota-Pimbina-Trail.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before highways crisscrossed this nation, trails linked remote communities to one another.  One such route connected today’s Manitoba, Canada with…