Category: Oregon
The High Desert Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/19Jan23-High-Desert-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are plenty of museums across the country to visit, but it’s fairly rare to find one that cover 40…
The Last to Receive Rail Service
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/18Jan23-High-Desert-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As settlers moved west, rail lines were not far behind them in most cases. However, when you look at the…
A Town That’s Boring
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/17Jan23-Boring-Oregon-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes you run into someone, who when asked about where they live, will tell you they live in a boring…
Sharing Information About Bigfoot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/16Jan23-Boring-Oregon-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A trip to Boring, Oregon is anything but – especially if you stop by the place Cliff Barackman established back…
Finding Sasquatch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/15Jan23-Boring-Oregon-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The term “sasquatch” is one that invokes a variety of images for people. To some in may be merely a…
A Mill with a Global Impact
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/12Jan23-Thompson-Mill-Oregon-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us are fascinated by those old mills that use water power to turn wheels or turbines that in…
A Legacy Mill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/11Jan23-Thompson-Mill-Oregon-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the Willamette River valley you’ll find an old mill with quite a story. It’s legacy dates to the 1850s…
The Halfway Point for Lewis & Clark
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/02Nov23-Fort-Clatsop-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was their goal…yet it was only the half way point of the trip…It was the Pacific Ocean that the…
A Suitable Winter Camp for Lewis & Clark
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/01Nov23-Fort-Clatsop-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)After spotting the Pacific Ocean on November 7th, 1805…Lewis and Clark searched for a suitable location for their winter camp. …
The McGloflin House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/27Jul22-McGloflin-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today it is just a historic site overlooking the Oregon’s Wilamette River…yet the man who lived here is regarded to…
A Foreign Attack on the U.S. Mainland
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/08Oct21-Balloon-Bombs-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a foreign attack on the U.S. mainland…yet few have heard the story of Japan’s balloon bombs and the…
Japanese Bombs on the U.S. Mainland
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/07Oct21-Balloon-Bombs-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Americans know of the bombs Japan dropped at Pearl Harbor…yet few have heard the story of the 9000 that were…
A Museum Dedicated to Advertising
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/20Sep21-Museum-of-Advertising.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If it were not for sponsors…daily broadcasts like this…and radio stations themselves for that matter would not be able to…
Where is the Applegate Trail?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/08Sep21-Applegate-Trail.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people have heard of the Oregon Trail…but few have come across the Applegate Trail…yet it was the latter that…
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…
Hijacked to America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/29Apr16-Dalles-Oregon-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)He did not want to come to America and once he got here he quickly made arrangement to go back…
The Best House at the Fort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/28Apr16-Dalles-Oregon-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Life at a frontier outpost could sometime be isolated and lacking the amenities of affluence. This commander had a plan…
What are the Dalles?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/27Apr16-Dalles-Oregon-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the more unusual place names in America. The Dalles. Where is it and what is it? If…
Stories from Pendleton, Oregon
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/02Dec15-Pendelton-Underground-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most towns have a mix of good and bad in their histories. Perhaps that’s the case for Pendleton, Oregon. Certainly…
Underground Tunnels and Secret Establishments
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/01Dec15-Pendelton-Underground-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may think stories of secret underground tunnels and secret subterranean establishments is a thing of folklore. But go below…
