http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/17Sep24-Earthquake-Lake.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We may think of big earthquakes in the U.S. being an event that normally occurs on the west coast.  In…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/16Sep24-West-Yellowstone.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the coldest and snowiest towns in U.S.  In fact, it’s not uncommon for this community to have…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/05Aug24-Wolf-Point-Montana.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It just stands to reason that a place named Wolf Point must have something to do with wolves somewhere in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/02Aug24-With-or-Without.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes just a few words can reveal the place from which you hail, even when you don’t mention the actual…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/01Aug24-Wild-Horse-Stampede-Rodeo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In northeastern Montana you’ll find a rodeo that is over 100 years old.  With that kind of track record, you…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. …