Category: Wyoming
The Other House for the President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/15Sep23-Willard-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The President, of course, lives in the White House. But over the decades, when a president or president-elect has needed…
Opening & Closing the Old Faithful Inn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/14Sep23-Old-Faithful-Inn-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Depending on where live in the country, you sometimes have to ready your home for the cold winter months. Now…
Yellowstone by Stagecoach
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/13Sep23-Old-Faithful-Inn-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today you can take a highway loop to the sites at Yellowstone National Park. In the days before cars, that…
An Inn by the Geysers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/12Sep23-Old-Faithful-Inn-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the latter half of the 1800s, explorers and early visitors to what is today Yellowstone National Park were amazed…
Pioneer Days of Ten Sleep, Wyoming
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/21Sep21-Wyoming-Homesteader-Hester-Currence.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are a resident of Wyoming, a four or five hour drive to get somewhere may not seem too…
Fort Bridger
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/07Jan19-Fort-Bridger-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This fort serviced the Pony Express, the Oregon Trail, and was around so long it even slept travelers by car. …
New Ownership of a Fort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/04Jan19-Fort-Bridger-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You usually don’t think of a fort coming under new ownership. But that’s what happened to this site that bears…
One of the Best Known Mountain Men of the 1800s
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/03Jan19-Fort-Bridger-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was one of the best known mountain men of the early 19th century. A man who was skilled in…