Category: Kansas
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…
