Category: Oklahoma
A Meal in Meers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/05Oct16-Meers-Oklahoma-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just northwest of Lawton…in the Wichita Mountains of Okalahoma, you will find a town named Meers. Its one business is…
Meers Store & Restaurant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/04Oct16-Meers-Oklahoma-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you can find your way to Meers, Oklahoma you won’t have a problem spotting the restaurant…it’s just about the…
Reviving the Longhorn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/03Oct16-Meers-Oklahoma-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Like the buffalo that roamed the great plains,Cheap Jerseys from china longhorn cattle are an icon of the old west. …
Oklahoma Oil
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/20Mar15-Oklahoma-Oil-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 4.1MB) The price of oil is a figure many Americans closely follow. Now imagine a time when the price dipped…
Striking Oil at the Governor’s Mansion
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/19Mar15-Oklahoma-Oil-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 4.1MB) If you struck oil underneath your home, well you might just move in order to strike it rich. But…
A Hangar to Park a Plane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/25Jul14-Frank-Phillips-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)When Frank bought a plane he needed a hangar in which to park it. Soon the plane wasn’t the only…
The Phillips Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/24Jul14-Frank-Phillips-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)The president of this oil company was looking for a place to entertain business leaders from the east coast and…
The US Marshals Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/07Feb14-US-Marshals-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Who makes sure that the scientists of Antarctica are accountable to the law? It may sound like a strange question,…
The Critical Role of the US Marshals
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/06Feb14-US-Marshals-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are the longest tenured federal law enforcement group in the United States. Their important work has played a critical…
From Norway to Oklahoma
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/05Feb14-Heavener-Oklahoma-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…
A Different Story
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/04Feb14-Heavener-Oklahoma-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…
Vikings in Oklahoma
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/03Feb14-Heavener-Oklahoma-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. …
The World’s Tallest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/08Jan14-Worlds-Tallest-Hill.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It is one of the highest points in the world and it isn’t out of reach for any climber, no…
A Hotel on the Frontier
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/07Jan14-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…
A Place Called Poteau
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/06Jan14-Poteau-Oklahoma-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Most folks aren’t quite sure how to pronounce the name of this town. The name looks like it belongs to…
The Oklahoma Land Rush
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/05Nov13-Cherokee-Strip.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a train chugging south out of Kansas with people jumping from the cars all along its route. The reason…
Getting to FFA Contest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/04Nov13-Ralph-Drennen.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)An FFA advisor was driving his students to a competition when the bus broke down with twenty eight students and…
Where Horses Wouldn’t Drink
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/20Aug13-Bartlesville-Oklahoma.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…
A New City Overnight
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Oklahoma-City-Land-Run-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)If a city grows quickly, we might say it sprang up overnight. This state capital literally sprang into existence in…
Land on the Run
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Oklahoma-City-Land-Run-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)If you found a great deal on a house or a piece of land, we might say that we ran…
