Category: North Dakota
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…
A Museum in a Shopping Mall
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/13Apr20-Roger-Maris-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You might be surprised to find this museum in a shopping mall, but there’s a very good reason it’s there…and…
A Vast Trading Network
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/03/23Mar20-Fort-Union.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the site of a vast trading network on the northern plains. Its history spanned forty years and today,…
An Amazing Grazing Animal
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/01/06Feb20-National-Buffalo-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of athletic animals you probably don’t quickly choose a buffalo to fit the bill. But in a…
Bison or Buffalo?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/01/05Feb20-National-Buffalo-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Are they bison or buffalo, or if there any difference? In a moment you’ll hear why the names can make…
The Land Where the Buffalo Roam
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/01/04Feb20-National-Buffalo-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all heard of the vast herds of buffalo that once roamed the high plains. At one time there numbers…
The Story of Louie L’amour
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/08Mar19-Louis-Lamour.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you’re like me, you probably heard many fascinating tales from your grandparents when you were a kid. Their stories…
Limpy Jack
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/07Mar19-Limpy-Jack.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today’s feature is about a man named Limpy Jack. With a name like that, I suppose we already have you…
History in Jamestown, North Dakota
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/06Mar19-Jamestown-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many forts on the high plains came and went as needs for protection passed. One such fort can be found…
The Jamestown Courthouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/05Mar19-Jamestown-ND-Courthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In Jamestown, North Dakota you will find a grand old courthouse that was an important part of the statehood process. …
How Bismarck Became Capital of North Dakota
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/04Mar19-Jamestown-ND-Courthouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)How did Bismarck become the capital of North Dakota? Someone made sure the committee making the decision didn’t get to…
A Lifetime Opportunity
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/12Feb09-Bagg-Bonanza-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was quite an opportunity – manage a farm for two decades and then be given nearly 10,000 acres of…
Bonanza Farms
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/11Feb09-Bagg-Bonanza-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They were some of the largest farms on the continent. Called bonanza farms, they stretched for thousand of acres and…
Talking About Someone Famous For a Living
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/30Nov18-Jack-Stahlman-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Did you ever meet someone famous and then tell everyone about your encounter? That’s in a sense what Jack does…
Making It on the Screen
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/29Nov18-Jack-Stahlman-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)How to you become a well known actor in Hollywood? Well, that’s what Jack had to figure out, but it…
The Big Break
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/28Nov18-Jack-Stahlman-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Sometime you just need a break, a stroke of luck, the ball to bounce your way. Jack Stahlman got it. …
A Premiere Zoo in Rural America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/19Oct18-Wahpeton-North-Dakota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)We’ve probably all been to the zoo sometime in our lives. It usually requires a drive to a large city…
A Big Fish Story
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/18Oct18-Wahpeton-North-Dakota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)We’ve all heard of fish stories – maybe you’ve even told one. But today I will tell you the biggest…
A Trading Network on the Northern Plains
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/13Jan17-Fort-Union-2017.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It was the site of a vast trading network on the northern plains. It’s history spanned forty years and today,…
