Category: North Dakota
An Aviation Pioneer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/30Aug23-Carl-Ben-Eielson-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Carl Ben Eielson hailed from Hatton, North Dakota. He was a pioneer in aviation and helped open the vast Alaskan…
Bringing the First Airplane to Alaska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/29Aug23-Carl-Ben-Eielson-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1920 a guy named Carl brought the first airplane to Fairbanks, Alaska. What took place from there would…
Carl Ben Eielson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/28Aug23-Carl-Ben-Eielson-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you live in the states of North Dakota or Alaska, you quite likely have heard of Carl Ben Eielson. …
Saving An Old Schoolhouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/03Jan23-Nome-Schoolhouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The schoolhouse in Nome, North Dakota saw its last students in 1970. The old building would have been demolished a…
The Story of a Farm-Based Business
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/02Jan23-Nome-Schoolhouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When your sales increase to the point you need to expand your business, that’s usually a good thing. That was…
Cattle Ranching President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/02Nov22-Theodore-Roosevelt-National-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Although his time here in North Dakota was not long if measured in numbers of days, the quality of that…
From the Badlands to the White House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/01Nov22-Theodore-Roosevelt-National-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)To date, no U.S. president has been born in North Dakota…but this commander-in-chief’s experiences there may be the reason he…
Meet the American Ninja Warrior
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/10Dec21-American-Ninja-Warrior-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We never give it a thought, but most of us perform our jobs with our feet on the ground. Even…
What’s A Comedic, Sports Actor to Do?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/09Dec21-American-Ninja-Warrior-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In his early 20s Alex Weber realized that he was some sort of comedic sports actor. Perhaps he wondered if…
The Life of a Fishing Guide
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/11/25Nov20-Devils-Lake-Fishing-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you are a fishing guide in North Dakota, you better know how to ice fish, because that’s what half…
Perch the Size of Footballs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/11/24Nov20-Devils-Lake-Fishing-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When I did the interview that you will hear today, I thought I was in for a big fish story. …
In Search of That Big Fish
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/11/23Nov20-Devils-Lake-Fishing-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard the cliché about being a big fish in a little pond. Well, Zippy knows a lot about fishes…
A Growing Lake
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/11/20Nov20-Devils-Lake-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a lake where just a few feet in rising water creates large amounts of new water acreage. In fact,…
Named For an Accident from Centuries Ago
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/11/19Nov20-Devils-Lake-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The name of this body of water is foreboding. A name derived from an accident that took place centuries ago. …
Fort Abercrombie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/10/28Oct20-Fort-Ambercrombie-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of settlers traveling west, you might think of them crossing states like Kansas and Nebraska. Perhaps we…
Germans with Cannons
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/10/27Oct20-Fort-Ambercrombie-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1862 there were several battles between the U.S. military and Dakota Indians at Fort Abercombie, North Dakota. Interestingly, what…
A Different Looking Fort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/10/26Oct20-Fort-Ambercrombie-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of a fort from the 1800s, you probably envision high wooden walls with watchtowers. This fort didn’t…
Fort Buford’s Importance
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/13Aug20-Yellowstone-Confluence-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today little remains of Ft. Buford just inside North Dakota’s border with Montana. Yet it was one of the most…
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…
A Record That People Didn’t Want Broken
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/14Apr20-Roger-Maris-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Records are made to be broken – or are they? When it came to this record, many people wanted the…
