Category: Kansas
Pool Table Restoration
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Pool-Table-Restoration-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.2KB)In the middle of farm country, you can find one of the nation’s experts on this game, not to mention…
The Union Station Massacre
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Union-Station-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.3KB)Some say this event was the spark that created today’s FBI. It was a crime that made national headlines and…
Jim Thorpe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Jim-Thorpe-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.7KB)In 1912 he was proclaimed the world’s greatest athlete and some of his Olympic records from that year still stood…
A Star Athlete
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Jim-Thorpe-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 955.1KB)When you think of historically great collegiate football programs, names like Notre Dame, Penn State and Alabama might come to…
The Events at Osawatamie, Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/03/John-Brown-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.1KB)The shots at Ft. Sumter in April of 1861 are often considered the first military action of the Civil War….
The John Brown Historic Site
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/03/John-Brown-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 948.6KB)In the years just ahead of the Civil War, thousands of people came to Kansas ahead of a critical vote…
A Safari Couple’s Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/03/Safari-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 955.3KB)Osa Johnson was certainly not an imposing figure, but give her a gun and she could drop some of the…
The Safari Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/03/Safari-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 956.1KB)Many towns have a museum of local history. But why is Chanute, Kansas home to the Safari Museum? It may…
Shawnee Mission
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/Shawnee-Mission-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 959.8KB)It was one of the most ethnically mixed schools in America with whites and slaves teaching children of many backgrounds…
A Midwest Mission
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/Shawnee-Mission-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 958.2KB)As Europeans crossed the Atlantic, those who had been living on the eastern seaboard for centuries were often forced to…
The Dalton Gang
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/10Dec09-Dalton-Gang-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Today these streets and the adjacent alley are peaceful avenues lines with small town businesses. The fall of 1892, it…
A Hometown Holdup
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Dalton-Gang-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Bob, Emmit and Grat–three brothers that would return to their hometown to do business–but the business to be transacted would…
The Oklahoma Land Rush
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Cherokee-Strip-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Imagine a train chugging south out of Kansas with people jumping from the cars all along its route. The reason…
Limited Married Life at Fort Hays
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Fort-Hays-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)(Hays, Kansas) – For an enlisted man at Fort Hays, it wasn’t enough to win a young woman’s heart and…
The Men at Fort Hays
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Fort-Hays-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)The Army certainly needs strong, upstanding young men and women to fill its ranks today. But in the late 19th…
Fort Hays, Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Fort-Hays-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)(Fort Hays, Kansas) As Americans moved from east to west, a network of forts sprang up across the high plains…
The Kansas Cosmosphere
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Kansas-Cosmosphere-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Today we’re back in Hutchinson, KS and say hello to our listeners on KWBW. I can attest to what folks…
A Space Museum in the Midwest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Kansas-Cosmosphere-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Where can you find the largest collection of Soviet space artifacts on public display in the world? The answer is…
Eisenhower’s Birthplace
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/Eisenhower-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)This president was born in Texas but always claimed Kansas as his home. The story as well as all of…
