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The Delivery Tree

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/05Mar24-Council-Grove-Kansas-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today if you need parts for your car or truck, you might just head to an auto repair store.  Turn…

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Messages Delivered in Weeks

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/04Mar24-Council-Grove-Kansas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before express mail or overnight delivery, messages traveled at a speed measured not in hours, but in weeks.  For those…

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Where Two Nations Could Met

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/01Mar24-Council-Grove-Kansas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The hardwood trees along the Neosho River had been growing here for years.  In fact, many of those old trees…

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Kafir Corn

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/06Oct23-Kafir-Corn-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve probably never heard of Kafir Corn.  However, turn back the clock a century and you may have been hearing…

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Drought and Grasshoppers

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/05Oct23-Kafir-Corn-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The first settlers to this region began to farm the land, but drought and grasshoppers made life miserable for most. …

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Near the Santa Fe Trail

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/04Oct23-Coranodo-Quivera-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The early trails that moved settlers from east to west often charted courses that helped reduce the number of obstacles…

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Searching for Gold in Kansas

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/03Oct23-Coranodo-Quivera-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are a Spanish explorer searching the New World for gold, the place you’d come look of course would…

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The Quivira of Kansas

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/02Oct23-Coranodo-Quivera-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The area around Lyons, Kansas in the central part of the Sunflower State may appear to be sparsely populated by…

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Teddy’s Unusual Pet

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/18Jul23-Fort-Wallace-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Presidents receive all kinds of gifts.  One young resident of Sharon Springs, KS was so excited to see President Teddy…

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Unearthing a Mystery

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…

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Rescue of the German Family

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…

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Fort Wallace – Wallace, KS

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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Canton, Kansas and Its Famous Water Towers

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/10Jul23-Canton-Kansas-Water-Towers.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just about every town has a water tower.  Canton, Kansas has not one, but two such towers, similar in size…

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The Life of Father Kapaun

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/20Jun23-Farther-Emil-Kapaun-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Pilsen, Kansas is probably not on your way to most places you need to get.  Yet many people go out…

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Carrying The Wounded – Caring For Souls

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/19Jun23-Farther-Emil-Kapaun-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If someone needs help, we might say that others figuratively carried them to where they needed to be.  In this…

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Run to the Sound of the Battle

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/16Jun23-Farther-Emil-Kapaun-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The army needs brave soldiers.  In this battle, it seemed the bravest of them all was a man in the…

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Pilsen, Kansas’ Skyline

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/15Jun23-Farther-Emil-Kapaun-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Drive to the small town of Pilsen, Kansas and there’s one building that dominates the skyline.  It’s the steeple of…

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The Most Watched Movie of All Time

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…

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Frank, the Great Storyteller

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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Wamego’s Famous Exhibition

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/06Jun23-Wizard-of-Oz-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Wamego, Kansas you’ll find the Columbian Theatre.  It’s history is a story in its own right.  However, the larger…

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