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Wearing The Uniform
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/02Jul15-Tomb-Guard-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some jobs require you to wear a uniform. Imagine a job where that uniform had to be worn with perfection…where…
Living in Death Valley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/16Jun15-Death-Valley-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Very few people have attempted to live inside Death Valley National Park, but one that did built one of the…
The 20 Mule Team
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/15Jun15-Death-Valley-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some of you might remember 20 mule team borax and the old episodes of the Death Valley TV show. Today…
How Death Valley Earned Its Name
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/12Jun15-Death-Valley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Because Death Valley is such a difficult environment to support plant and animal life…most suppose that is how it earned…
A Place of Beauty and Danger
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/11Jun15-Death-Valley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On the border of California and Nevada you will find a place that has daunted countless travelers for the past…
Demonstrating a New Rifle at the White House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Jun15-Spencer-Rifle.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Imagine that you had developed a new type of rifle that could helpful to the US Military. How would you…
The World’s Greatest Athlete
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/02Jun15-Jim-Thorpe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In 1912, he was proclaimed “The World’s Greatest Athlete” and some of his Olympic records stood two decades later. He…
Bartering Is What Built the Place
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/01Jun15-Buckhorn-Saloon.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When people can’t pay cash for items they want, they may try to barter. That’s what this saloon did, and…
West of the Mississippi to Illinois
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/26May15-Kaskaskia-2015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today we head west of the Mississippi to the State of Illinois. Yes, west of the Mississippi to the State of…
A Man of Legend
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/25May15-Harpers-Ferry-2015-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)He is a man of legend…a man whose story may be larger than life…a renegade who history now looks upon…
One of the Busiest and Important Towns in the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/22May15-Harpers-Ferry-2015-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today the place is almost a ghost town. But over a century ago it was one of the busiest and…
How a Sixteen Year Old Saved the United States
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/21May15-Wheeling-Revolution-2015-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Where did the American Revolution end? Why Wheeling, West Virginia of course–when a sixteen year old girl saved the newly…
A String A Battles on the Western Frontier
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/20May15-Wheeling-Revolution-2015-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a chapter of the American Revolution that few know today–a string of battles fought on what was then the…
Facing What Seemed to be a Lose-Lose Decision
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/19May15-Wheeling-Legends-2015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Samuel McCulluck faced what seemed to be a lose-lose decision. Either surrender to his enemy and face certain death…or plunge…
One Bookend of the Lincoln Presidency
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/07May15-Abraham-Lincoln-Inauguration.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)On the surface, this old train station in Springfield, Illinois may not seem to be that important. However, when you…
150 Years Since the Assassination of Lincoln
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/04/14Apr15-Fords-Theater.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s been 150 years since John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln. Today, we go to the site of the…
Santa Anna’s Leg
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/04/13Apr15-Santa-Annas-Leg.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s been over 150 years since Illinois soldiers faced Santa Ana in the Mexican War. However traces of that battle…
An Unusual Field Trip
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Apr15-Ernest-Muncreif.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many schools take field trips this time of the year. They are usually a fun event for students to get…
The Surrender of Lee at Appomattox
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…
The Place Where the Final Chapter of the Civil War Began
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…
