Category: Kansas
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…
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…
The Gamers Car
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/16Mar23-Midwest-Dream-Car-Collection-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes a car is known for it’s time period in history. That’s the case for this particular Nissan. If you’re…
The Mighty Power Wagon
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/15Mar23-Midwest-Dream-Car-Collection-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you have work to do in the field, you probably get a tractor to pull an implement to get…
Driving Your Car in the Lake…on Purpose
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/14Mar23-Midwest-Dream-Car-Collection-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us have a car. Some of us have a boat. What if wanted both but only had the…
Will the Delorean Hit 88 MPH?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/13Mar23-Midwest-Dream-Car-Collection-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you’ve ever seen one of the movies in the Back to the Future series, you know that Michael J…
The “Accidental” Car Collection
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/10Mar23-Midwest-Dream-Car-Collection-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Did you ever set out to purchase a car and wind up buying several by accident? I know, that’s probably…
Kidder Massacre
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/13Dec22-Kidder-Massacre.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today messages can be relayed to a military patrol within a split second. But in the 1860s, it took a…
The Goodland Flying Machine
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…
The Cowboy War
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…
Fighting for the County Seat
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/08Dec22-Leota-Cowboy-War-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I’ve heard several stories over the years about towns fighting to be proclaimed the county seat in the early years…
He once was just, “Bill”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/21Nov22-Buffalo-Bill-Oakly-Kansas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before he was known as Buffalo Bill, he was simply William Cody. We all assume he must have some connection…
Orphan Train Complex – Concordia, KS
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/19Aug22-Orphan-Train-Complex-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine being an orphan boarding a train on the East Coast, not knowing where your next home might be. That…
The Orphan Train
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/18Aug22-Orphan-Train-Complex-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a restored rail depot building in Concordia, Kansas you can find an intriguing story of nearly a quarter million…
Turkey Red & the Liberty Bell
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/26Jul22-Mennonite-Heritage-Center-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you’ve seen the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. But have you see the Liberty Bell in Goessel, Kansas? The version…
The Mennonites Meet the Tsar
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/25Jul22-Mennonite-Heritage-Center-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This community in central Kansas traces their lineage to the Netherlands, Poland and the Ukraine. During their journey it was…
The Horse with a Gas Mask
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/03May22-Fort-Riley-Kansas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is a lot of important military artifacts in this museum and Dr. Robert Smith can tell you why each…
Fort Riley, Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/02May22-Fort-Riley-Kansas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you drive by Junction City, Kansas on Interstate 70 you’ll see the airfield and buildings related to one of…
Be Wary of “Just Bid on It”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/23Mar22-Landmark-Inn.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Gary says people should be wary of realtors who say, “Just make a bid on it.” If you do make…
Last of the Raids
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/02Mar22-Last-Indian-Raid.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Americans are familiar with the fate of Custer and his men at the Little Big Horn. It was far from…
