Posted in American Countryside Best of Illinois

The Most Famous Cow in History

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/15Oct18-Chicago-Fire-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)No doubt, she is one of the most famous cows in history…but is she really to blame for the problems…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Idaho

Sheep with a Right of Way

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/08Oct18-Ketchum-Sheep-Festival-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today the number of snow skiers to this valley outnumbers the sheep that graze the summer mountainsides.  However, the sheep…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Idaho

Silver Ran Out and Sheep Moved In

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/05Oct18-Ketchum-Sheep-Festival-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When the silver ran out, the sheep moved in…thousands of them in fact.  This place became one of the largest…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Montana

The Story Behind Custer’s Last Stand

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/04Oct18-Custer-Battlefield-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You’ve probably heard of Custer’s last stand at the Little Bighorn, but do you know the real story of what…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Montana

General Custer

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/03Oct18-Custer-Battlefield-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You probably know his name because of his famous last stand.  But before that battle in today’s state of Montana,…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Kansas

Permission to Get Married

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/26Sep18-Fort-Hays-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)For an enlisted man at Fort Hays, it wasn’t enough to win a woman’s heart and ask her hand in…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Kansas

Reasons for Enlisting

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/25Sep18-Fort-Hays-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The army certainly needs strong, upstanding young men and women to fill its ranks…but in the late 19th century, the…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Kansas

A Remaining Fort

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/24Sep18-Fort-Hays-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)As Americans moved from east to west, a network of forts sprang up on the high plains to protect travel…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of New Jersey

General Washington’s Fight

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/17Sep18-British-Barracks-Trenton-New-Jersey-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The battle George Washington waged against this invisible enemy may not seem that glamorous and it certainly doesn’t get much…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of New Jersey

Washington’s Delaware River Crossing Destination

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/14Sep18-British-Barracks-Trenton-New-Jersey-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When Washington made his famous crossing of the Delaware River on Christmas night 1776, he was of course headed somewhere. …

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Posted in American Countryside Best of New Jersey

More Than An Old Military Barracks

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/13Sep18-British-Barracks-Trenton-New-Jersey-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On the surface this place might not seem that important.  It’s just an old military barracks.  Yet it is the…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Nevada

A Casino With A Great History

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/03Sep18-Golden-Nugget-Casino.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Ask someone to name a casino in Vegas and they can rattle off names like the Belagio, Stratosphere, MGM and…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Vermont

A Place Called Hildene

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/27Aug18-Hildene-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky and lived most of his adult years in Illinois.  But where did future generations…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Vermont

The Son of a President

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/24Aug18-Hildene-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Being the son of a U.S. president has its perks.  However, it does provide a very high bar of achievement…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Georgia

Who Was Vice President of the Confederacy?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/14Aug18-AH-Stephens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of Jefferson Davis, president of the confederacy. But who was his vice president?

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Georgia

The Confederacy on the Move

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/13Aug18-Jefferson-Davis-Capture-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)As Union troops advanced on Richmond, Virginia, the president of the Confederacy was on the move.  The story of the…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Pennsylvania

The Story of a Cup of Coffee (and much more…)

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/03Aug18-Gettysburg-Christian-Commission-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today someone might drive through Starbucks to get a cup of coffee.  During the Civil War…this group instead brought the…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Pennsylvania

The Organization That Grew to the YMCA

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/02Aug18-Gettysburg-Christian-Commission-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When a soldier heads to battle, there are many organizations that volunteer their services to help he or she and…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Pennsylvania

The Adamantine Guard

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/01Aug18-Adamantine-Guard.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was called the Adamantine Guard…a military unit formed in one Pennsylvania County with over a century of service to…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Illinois

Inside the Dickson Mounds

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/31Jul18-Dixon-Mounds-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Long before there were cities like New York and Chicago…these giant cities were scattered across the nation.  Today we try…

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