Category: 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…
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…
The Little Red House in Western Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/27Jul18-Santa-Fe-Trail-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The first building in this town didn’t begin its life here. In fact i’s route to this city is a…
The Superhighway of the 1800s
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/07/26Jul18-Santa-Fe-Trail-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a superhighway of the 1800s…a thruway carrying people and cargo from two ends of the country. It may…
The Married Life at Fort Hays
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/26Oct17-Fort-Hays-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For an enlisted man at Fort Hays, it wasn’t enough to win a young woman’s heart and ask her hand…
Enlisting in the 19th Century Army
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/25Oct17-Fort-Hays-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Army certainly needs strong, upstanding young men and women to fill its ranks today. But in the late 19th…
A Fort Among the Plains
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/10/24Oct17-Fort-Hays-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As Americans moved from east to west, a network of forts sprang up across the high plains to protect travel…
Shawnee Mission
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/20Jan17-Shawnee-Mission-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As Europeans crossed the Atlantic, those who had been living on the eastern seaboard for centuries were often forced to…
Longer Than Noah’s Flood
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/28Oct16-Sacramento-History-Underground-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of Noah’s flood. This city had it worse it terms of numbers of straight days of rain. What…
The Other Inauguration
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/27Oct16-They-Also-Ran-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On the day the latest U.S. president is sworn into office, the runner-up will receive their own ceremony just a…
The “Biggest Loser”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/26Oct16-They-Also-Ran-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This man ran for president five times and never won. Some may call him the “biggest loser.” Here it just…
They Also Ran
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/25Oct16-They-Also-Ran-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you competed in a race and didn’t win, you might be labeled an “also ran.” But in this town,…
The 1936 Berlin Olympics US Basketball Team
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/11Aug16-Olympic-Basketball-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Eighty years ago the first Olympic gold medal basketball match was played. You can bet the scene back then is…
Dunking the Basketball
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/10Aug16-Olympic-Basketball-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)What would the game of basketball be without the dunk? You have some unlikely folks in central Kansas and one…
Training for the Olympics
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/09Aug16-Olympic-Basketball-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Today’s Olympic athletes may be able to devote many hours to training for their big event. Eighty years ago, this…
Getting Your Name Out In Public
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/08Aug16-Olympic-Basketball-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Businesses may use a variety of ways to get their name out to the public. In the first half of…
Offering a Blank Check for a Cabin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/05May16-Home-on-the-Range-Cabin-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a place so important, the owners were once offered a blank check if they would sell. It’s a story…
President Roosevelt’s Favorite Song – Why it Matters!
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/04May16-Home-on-the-Range-Cabin-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the best known songs of that past century. In fact, one president said it was his favorite. …
My Western Home – A Poem You Know!
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/03May16-Home-on-the-Range-Cabin-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may not fancy yourself a poet, and you may have forgotten a poem called My Western Home. But in…
The Most Dangerous Route the Mail Ever Took
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/02May16-Dalles-Oregon-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s said to be the most dangerous route a postman ever took. In fact, the route was eventually removed from…
