Category: Oklahoma
A Long Way from Norway to Oklahoma
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/23Feb24-Heavener-Runestone-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a long way from Norway to Oklahoma. That’s precisely why this story seems so hard to believe. However, could…
Early Oklahoma Visitors
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/22Feb24-Heavener-Runestone-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can find ancient carvings of Native Americans in many parts of the country. So when early settlers happened upon…
Evidence of Vikings in Oklahoma
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/21Feb24-Heavener-Runestone-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you want to learn the story of ancient Vikings you would of course travel to Scandinavia…or Oklahoma of course. …
Atop a Magnificent Peak
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/08Jan23-Poteau-Oklahoma-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is one of the highest points in the world and it isn’t out of reach for any climber, no…
Building a Building with an Identified Need
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/05Jan23-Poteau-Oklahoma-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a six story hotel in a place some would consider the frontier border of Oklahoma and Arkansas. That was…
How Do You Pronounce the Name of This Town?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/04Jan23-Poteau-Oklahoma-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most folks aren’t quite sure how to pronounce the name of this town. The name looks like it belongs to…
Springing Into Existence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/09Nov23-Oklahoma-Land-Run-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If a city grows quickly, we might say it sprang up overnight. This state capital literally sprang into existence in…
Running to Get a Deal
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/08Nov23-Oklahoma-Land-Run-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you found a great deal on a house of a piece of land, we might say that we ran…
Blue & Gold Sausage
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/14Dec22-Blue-Gold-Sausage.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This FFA advisor found a fund raiser that was so successful, he had to quit teaching just to operate the…
Creating the New Capitol
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/14Mar22-Oklahoma-State-Capitol-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This state’s government was ready to move out of its temporary home in a downtown hotel. However, the route to…
The Capitol Is Where the Sign Says It Is
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/11Mar22-Oklahoma-State-Capitol-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s said, “home is where the heart is.” And in this state it can be said, “The capitol is where…
Multiple Choice State Capital
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/10Mar22-Oklahoma-State-Capitol-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Voters often face multiple choices when electing candidates for office. But the residents of this state had a most unique…
You Can Lead a Horse to Water But He Won’t Drink Oil
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/12Oct21-Bartlesville-Oil-Well-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George Keeler noticed his horses wouldn’t drink from this spot on the Caney River. The location is today an important…
Attracting More Than a Railroad
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/10/11Oct21-Bartlesville-Oil-Well-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)William Johnstone and George Keeler were looking for a way to attract the railroad to their new town. Who knew…
The Cattlemen’s Steakhouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/29Apr21-Cattlemens-Steakhouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You might go to a fancy clothing store to get measured for a suit. But where do you go to…
Beer for Breakfast
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/28Apr21-Cattlemens-Steakhouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Why are nurses on the night shift eating breakfast in the Oklahoma City Stockyards? In a moment we’ll take you…
The $175,000 Banjo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/21Apr21-American-Banjo-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When I was in fifth grade I wanted to play the trumpet. My parents scratched together $300 for a used…
Dueling Banjos
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/20Apr21-American-Banjo-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of dueling banjos…now multiply it times several hundred. It’s a unique convention of sights and sounds that entertains…
What One Man Did with the Skeletons in His Closet
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/19Mar21-Osteology-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jay has a lot of skeletons in his closet. Oh, but there’s much more. He has skeletons just about everywhere…
Unearthing a Career
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/18Mar21-Osteology-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jay’s father could have scolded him for what he’d unearthed. Most parents would say, “Put down that filthy thing!” His…
