Category: Nevada
Tying the Knot a Lot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/17Feb22-Las-Vegas-Weddings-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)February is of course the month noted for love…it’s the month we celebrate Valentine’s Day. There are many weddings that…
Vegas & Reno – Love & Divorce
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/02/16Feb22-Las-Vegas-Weddings-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This county performs more weddings than any other in the nation. You probably have a good idea where that county…
An Expert on a Reality Show
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/21Jan22-Mark-Hall-Patton.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It today’s world of reality television shows, things that once may have seemed quite ordinary have become worldwide hits. One…
The Colorful Cessna at Las Vegas Airport
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/17Jan22-Las-Vegas-Endurance-Plane-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you’ve ever flown into the Las Vegas airport, you may have noticed a colorful Cessna airplane hanging from the…
The Longest Flight
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/01/13Jan22-Las-Vegas-Endurance-Plane-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What’s the longest time a plane has stayed in the air without landing and with the same two men at…
A Man From Every State to Build the Hoover Dam
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/02May19-Boulder-City-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It took men from every state in the nation and many nations of the world to build Hoover Dam…
An Engineering Feat in the Desert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/01May19-Boulder-City-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s still an engineering wonder of the world – a feat some thought impossible, yet something that became a reality…
A Casino With A Great History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/03Sep18-Golden-Nugget-Casino.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Ask someone to name a casino in Vegas and they can rattle off names like the Belagio, Stratosphere, MGM and…
Buying Land With a Catch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/04May17-El-Dorado-Mine-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)All Shawna’s father wanted was a five acre patch of land to access the Colorado River. He soon learned that…
Hiring Women to Populate a Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/03May17-El-Dorado-Mine-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The proposal had to sound ridiculous to just about everyone who heard it, save the men who sprang the idea. …
The El Dorado Mine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/02May17-El-Dorado-Mine-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)This canyon was once a bustling place full of men looking to make big money in the gold mines. The…
An Unusual White Rock
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/01May17-El-Dorado-Mine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A place can be deceiving. That was exactly the case here in what is today’s desert south of Las Vegas….
A Valentine’s Wedding Record
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/14Feb14-Las-Vegas-Wedding-Chapel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)My grandparents were married on Valentine’s Day and they celebrated 76 wedding anniversaries. But today, we honor a Valentine’s wedding…
More Weddings Than Anywhere in the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/13Feb14-Las-Vegas-Wedding-Chapel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This county performs more weddings than any other in the nation. You probably have a good idea where that county…
Flying a World Record Endurance
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/26Jan12-Las-Vegas-Endurance-Plane-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)If you’ve ever flown into the Las Vegas airport, you may have noticed a colorful Cessna airplane hanging from the…
The 24 Hour Las Vegas Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/25Jan12-Las-Vegas-Endurance-Plane-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)You may recall we recently discussed a pair of brothers in Mississippi who in 1935 set a record by keeping…
Protestors and Nuclear Testing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/Nevada-Test-Site-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Our nation’s Bill of Rights guarantees its citizens freedom of speech and the right to assemble. When you are director…
Nuclear Weapons Testing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/Nevada-Test-Site-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)From the 1950s to 1992, this area north of Las Vegas was where the U.S. conducted most of its nuclear…
Drilling Holes in the Ground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Nevada-Test-Site-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Drilling a hole in the ground may not sound too important. However at this site, much of today’s drilling technology…
Promoting Las Vegas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Las-Vegas-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Most cities would not promote nuclear tests and fishing at lakes void of fish. But that’s what this place did,…
