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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/07Oct14-Hollenberg-Pony-Express-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The pony express was in operation for just a little over a year, however the story of horses and riders racing…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/06Oct14-Hollenberg-Pony-Express-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They say that in real estate, the three most important things are location, location, location.  That was true even in the…

Near Kansas’ border with Colorado you can find a place called El Cuartelejo.  It’s the ruins of an ancient home who’s occupants were on the run from…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/02Sep14-Scott-City-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In western Kansas you can find the foundations for an old Native American settlement.  Perhaps that doesn’t seem too out of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/01Sep14-Monument-Rocks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the natural wonders of Kansas.  A place of white spires rising from the prairie plains that have been…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/07Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In the 1930s a cowboy song began to get quite a bit of air time on radio stations.  But suddenly…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/06Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The song, “Home of the Range,” turns 140 years old this year.  It might not sound like a big deal, but…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/05Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Brewster Higley didn’t think much about the poem he’d written.  In fact, he stuffed it in a book and hadn’t looked…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/04Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the surface, the story doesn’t seem too different from other settlers stories of the late 1800s.  A man from Indiana…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/04Mar14-Knute-Rockne-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)March 31, 1931 is a date still well remembered by those living around Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.  Although eye witnesses have…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/03Mar14-Knute-Rockne-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Knute Rockne coached Notre Dame to four national championships and a record of 105 wins, against only 12 losses and…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/28Feb14-Council-Grove-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…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/27Feb14-Council-Grove-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…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/26Feb14-Council-Grove-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…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/24Feb14-Obamas-Grandparents.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Dunhams were just another pair of Kansas high school graduates.  They stayed in touch with classmates and tried to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/16Jan14-Basketball-History-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Football is a game played in the elements.  Mud, rain, ice and snow may impact the game.  Now imagine if…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/15Jan14-Basketball-History-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)1936 was the first time the Olympics recognized the game of basketball as an official sport.  In the U.S., AAU,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/14Jan14-Basketball-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of basketball teams like the Lakers, Bulls and Celtics.  But what about the Globe Refiners?  Turn back the…