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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/17Jul23-Fort-Wallace-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Doctors may be called upon to help people in all kinds of situations, but the request in Wallace, KS was…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/14Jul23-Fort-Wallace-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Conflicts between Native Americans and westward moving settlers took place around Ft. Wallace, in western Kansas, during the years around…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/13Jul23-Fort-Wallace-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today it is a small town in an area where towns are few and far between.  Yet it is a…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/08Jun23-Wizard-of-Oz-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1939 two major movies were released at the same time.  One was “Gone with the Wind,” one of the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/07Jun23-Wizard-of-Oz-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people can spin great stories.  By all accounts, Frank was a great story teller, but his audience was just…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/12Dec22-Goodland-Helicopter.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The first operational helicopters took flight in the 1930s.   Widespread production of the aircraft didn’t occur for another decade…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/09Dec22-Leota-Cowboy-War-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was proclaimed the Cowboy War by national newspapers.  It was truly a battle that required some of the biggest…