Category: Montana
The Treasure in the Back of the Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/28May24-Glasgow-Treasure-in-the-Back-of-the-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over many years of travels I’ve found that the back of a museum can hold many unexpected treasures. You just…
A Point On the Globe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/24May24-Glasgow-A-Point-On-the-Globe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The state of Montana is a long way from Scotland. However a trip to this town will perhaps make you…
A Native American Teepee
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/23May24-Glasgow-Native-American-Teepee.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people associate Native American tribes from the Plains with a teepee. That may be an accurate description but depends…
Ismay, Montana and a Hall of Fame Quarterback
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/22May24-Ismay-Joe-Montana-2-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ll need to drive on six miles of gravel roads from the highway to get to the tiny town of…
Changing the Name of a Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/21May24-Ismay-Joe-Montana-1-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Would you ever consider changing your name? What if someone was offering you a prize to change it to a…
The Backcountry Horsemen
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/29Sep23-Columbia-Falls-Montana-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are called the Back Country Horseman. Their work is something that may have impacted you and you never realized…
Packing Explosives to Open the Trail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/28Sep23-Columbia-Falls-Montana-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Placing explosives on the backs of mules sounds like an unusual job, but it was just part of the work…
The Outhouse on Top of the Mule
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/27Sep23-Columbia-Falls-Montana-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all seen old time pictures of mule trains packing supplies to some remote location. However, Stu Sorenson will tell…
Lodges of Glacier
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/26Sep23-Glacier-National-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We recently did some shows from the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park. Also impressive is another park lodge…this…
Establishing Glacier National Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/25Sep23-Glacier-National-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Along Montana’s border with Canada you’ll find one of the most popular and most scenic national parks in the country. …
A Beautiful Church in Rural Montana
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/23Aug23-St.-Ignatius-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just north of Missoula, Montana you’ll find a beautiful rural church with quite a story. It’s a place where people…
A Church That’s a Little Different Than Most
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/22Aug23-St.-Ignatius-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Churches began to spring up in many town in the U.S. as they were settled. But this church is perhaps…
Lewis & Clark’s Montana Obstacle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/30Jun23-Great-Falls.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Although sandbars and other river snags were a danger for Lewis and Clark on the way up the Missouri River…it…
Underground in Butte
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/04Mar22-Butte-Montana-Speakeasy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we head under ground…both literally and figuratively as we uncover some of this city’s history and dig up some…
Butte Speakeasy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/03Mar22-Butte-Montana-Speakeasy-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Beginning in 1920, the 18th Amendment made the manufacture and consumption of alcohol illegal until it was repealed in 1933. …
An Important Marker for Lewis & Clark
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/12Aug20-Yellowstone-Confluence-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today it is a point just inside North Dakota’s border with Montana. Then it was an important marker on the…
The Story Behind Custer’s Last Stand
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/04Oct18-Custer-Battlefield-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You’ve probably heard of Custer’s last stand at the Little Bighorn, but do you know the real story of what…
General Custer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/09/03Oct18-Custer-Battlefield-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You probably know his name because of his famous last stand. But before that battle in today’s state of Montana,…
A Place Known As Traveler’s Rest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/21Jun18-Travelers-Rest-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a meeting place, a point were Lewis and Clark twice stopped during very important points in their journey…
The Lolo Trail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/20Jun18-Travelers-Rest-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the most difficult climb in their journey west–the Rocky mountains of Montana and Idaho. We hit the Lolo…
