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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/25Aug21-XIT-Ranch-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just off the courthouse square in Dalhart, Texas you’ll find a small museum devoted to a very large subject –…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/24Aug21-XIT-Ranch-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a ranch so large it took thousands of miles of wire just to fence the pastures.  It was a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/23Aug21-XIT-Ranch-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the state of Texas needed to build a new state capitol building they had a plan in place to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/14Jul21-Buddy-Holly-Museum-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We sometimes say that famous folks forget their roots.  They become so engrossed in stardom that they lose site of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/13Jul21-Buddy-Holly-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us know the Buddy Holly sing, That’ll Be the Day.”  It was a hit that launched the young…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/12Jul21-Buddy-Holly-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Landing a record deal is a big step in a musician’s career.  But when this record company wanted their young…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/09Jul21-Buddy-Holly-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Ever rock ‘n roll star had to begin somewhere, and for this musician from Lubbock, TX it was playing at…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/08Jul21-Silent-Wings-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine entering a heated ground battle simply slicing through the air on a glider.  It was a dangerous mission that…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/07Jul21-Silent-Wings-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the United States entered World War II soldiers were asked to fight in places where it would be difficult…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/07/06Jul21-Dinosaur-Valley.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The animal tracks are three foot in width…and they are real…not made by an imaginary bigfoot…but plain to see to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/12Apr21-Windmill-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Good salesman can sell you an item you need.  Great salesman find a way to sell you many items you…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/09Apr21-Windmill-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many farmers purchased windmills to pump water for their livestock.  But there was someone else buying windmills for another purpose,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/08Apr21-Windmill-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just about every farmstead had one at one time – many remain, although few still perform the task they were…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/08Feb21-Hereford-Texas-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of our towns and cities in the country were founded by a mixture of immigrants.  This town has seen…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/05Feb21-Hereford-Texas-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This town wanted to help with the war effort however it could.  It ended up that its isolation made it…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/04Feb21-Hereford-Texas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s been dubbed the ‘’Town without a Toothache.”  However, you may know it by it’s other motto – a motto…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/01/03Feb21-Hereford-Texas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Was Mr. Smith really deaf?  That answer perhaps depends on who you ask.  And the reason we don’t know that…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/10/09Oct20-Lubbock-Ag-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Cotton is an important crop in west Texas.  Not only is it vital for local farmers and industry, the story…