Category: Oklahoma
Stockyards City, Oklahoma
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Oklahoma-City-Cattlemens-Steakhouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)You might go to a fancy clothing store to get measured for a suit. But where do you go to…
The Cattlemen’s Cafe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Oklahoma-City-Cattlemens-Steakhouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Why are nurses on the night shift eating breakfast in the Oklahoma City Stockyards? Here’s a place popular for breakfast…
The Banjo Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Banjo-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)When I was in fifth grade I wanted to play the trumpet. My parents scratched together $300 for a used…
Duelling Banjos
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/07/Banjo-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)You’ve heard of dueling banjos–now multiply it times several hundred. It’s a unique convention of sights and sounds that arrives…
Collecting Specimens
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Osteology-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Jay’s father could have scolded him for what he’d unearthed. Most parents would say, “Put down that filthy thing!” His…
A Prisoner of War Reintured
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Ft-Reno-Oklahoma-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Over 65 years after this Prisoner Of War died in a work camp, his body will be reintured near his…
One Famous Horse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Ft-Reno-Oklahoma-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)At one time this fort raised and trained over 14,000 horses and mules at a time. Many of those animals…
An Unlikely Field Trip
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/06May10-Ernest-Muncreif-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:05 — 1.9MB)Many schools take field trips this time of the year. They are usually a fun event for students to get…
An Agriculture Student from the Ivory Coast
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/Ivory-Coast-Ag-Student.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)It’s not everyday you find a young man who hails from the nation of Ivory Coast attending a farm conference…
Pawnee Bill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Pawnee-Bill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.3KB)It may have seemed this famous western showman had married the wrong woman. After all, his bride was a city…
The New Farmers of America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/08/New-Farmers-of-America-Leroy-Brown.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 936.1KB)Most people have heard of the National FFA, formerly the Future Farmers of America. In fact, many listeners to these…
A Career In Agriculture Education
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/08/WG-Parker-Agriculture-Teacher-NFA.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.8KB)At 96 years old, W.G. Parker has memories of teaching agriculture well before World War II. Most of his career…
A Place to Park a Plane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Frank-Phillips-Oil-Company-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 934.1KB)When Frank bought a plane he needed a hangar in which to park it. Soon the plane wasn’t the only…
Frank Phillips’ Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Frank-Phillips-Oil-Company-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.4KB)The president of this oil company was looking for a place to entertain business leaders from the east coast and…
An Iowa Barber Strikes Black Gold
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Frank-Phillips-Oil-Company-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.2KB)On the surface it seemed like an unlikely scenario for success. A barber from Iowa striking oil and building one…
A Field Trip to Rodeo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Ernest-Muncreif-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:05 — 1.9MB)Many schools take field trips. They’re usually fun events for students to get some time out of the classroom. But…
The Battered Bucket Award
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Ernest-Muncrief-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB) There are major awards like Oscars, Grammys and Nobel Peace Prizes; then there is the Battered Bucket Award. You’ve…
1943 FFA American Star Farmer Wayne Boothe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Wayne-Boothe-Star-Farmer-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 949.2KB)Every year the National FFA selects one student as the Star Farmer of America. It’s quite an honor. Today we…
Accidental Family Farm History in Cordell, Oklahoma
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Wayne-Booth-Star-Farmer-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 949.6KB)Wayne Booth resides in Cordell, Oklahoma thanks to a snowstorm over a century ago. The story of that storm and…
Pawnee Bill’s Wild West Show
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Pawnee-Bill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.3KB)It may have seemed this famous western showman had married the wrong woman. After all, his bride was a city…