Category: Nebraska
Mile-Long Bridges Over Dry River Beds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/07Jun22-Joe-Jeffrey-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the first residents of this area began building bridges to cross the nearby river, they found they often needed…
Wahoo, Nebraska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/26Apr22-Wahoo-Nebraska-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s certainly one of the more unique names for a town in the country. Interestingly, no one knows for sure…
Sam Wahoo Crawford
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/25Apr22-Wahoo-Nebraska-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lots of people have nicknames. This baseball hall of famer was so proud of his hometown, they inserted it into…
The Salt King’s Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/10Sep21-Arbor-Day-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You probably know this gentleman’s son for the salt company he founded that bears his name. but the father was…
A Place With No Trees Was No Place For Him
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/09Sep21-Arbor-Day-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may enjoy a tree for its beauty, it’s shade, or perhaps the fruit that comes from it. But when…
The First Encounter with Wild Bill Hickok
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/21May21-Rock-Creek-Station-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Mention the name Wild Bill Hickok and many people have images of a western lawman not afraid to enter a …
Ruts That Are Never Filled
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/20May21-Rock-Creek-Station-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If someone cuts ruts down a muddy dirt trail, someone else will probably need to come and fill them in…
Making An Impact
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/11/18Nov20-Shickley-Nebraska-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us give to charities. Some of those organizations may be local, but many are national or even global. …
One of the Mightiest Towns in the Land
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/11/17Nov20-Shickley-Nebraska-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are 340 residents in Shickley, Nebraska. If you count up all the folks living in the local school district,…
Engagement Through the Mail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/16Sep20-North-Platte-WWII-Canteen-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine getting engaged to someone you only knew through letters. That’s what happened here, thanks to one young lady who…
The Payoff of a Group Effort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/15Sep20-North-Platte-WWII-Canteen-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a massive volunteer effort involving people from well over a hundred communities scattered across western Nebraska and beyond. …
A Gift with Impact
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/14Sep20-North-Platte-WWII-Canteen-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Rae Wilson went to the depot to give her brother a Christmas gift. When he did not arrive, a new…
A City Within A City
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/11Sep20-Golden-Spike-Tower-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The population of North Platte, Nebraska is about 23,000 people. That’s also about the number you might find working at…
The Golden Spike Tower
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/10Sep20-Golden-Spike-Tower-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Golden Spike Tower, a platform that rises from the High Plains to provide a bird’s eye view…
The Center of the Nation’s Rail Car Traffic
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/09Sep20-Golden-Spike-Tower-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the largest rail yard in the world and it sits in a small city in the middle of the…
A Place Called Carhenge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/27Aug20-Carhenge-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In all of my travels I have found several themes that seem to hold true across many small towns. One…
A Unique Site at Alliance, Nebraska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/26Aug20-Carhenge-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KCOW in Alliance, Nebraska. Look up that town in an atlas and…
A Favorite Attraction in Rural Nebraska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/25Aug20-Carhenge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)My son is in the 7th grade. Ask him what one of his favorite attractions was on any family vacation…
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in Europe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/05/29May20-Buffalo-Bill-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the eve of Word War I, the European portion of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show quickly found their operation…
Was Buffalo Bill a Good Guy or a Bad Guy?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/05/28May20-Buffalo-Bill-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Was Buffalo Bill a good guy or a bad guy? Well, that all depends on who you talk to around…
