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War on the Missouri and Kansas Border
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/24Oct12-Island-Mound-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)In the years leading up to the Civil War, counties adjacent to the Missouri-Kansas border saw bloodshed as pro and…
Jim Grey’s Petrified Wood
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/23Oct12-Jim-Grey-Petrified-Wood.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Jim says he’s in the treasure hunting business. He’s looking for items that are worth tens of thousands of dollars…
Some Ocean Front Property in Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/22Oct12-Yuma-Arizona-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)George Strait once sang that he had some oceanfront property in Arizona and if you’d buy that he’d throw the…
War Touching Innocent Lives
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/19Oct12-Palmyra-Massacre-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)War sometimes touches the lives of innocent people – citizens not involved in the conflict, yet caught in the middle…
A Tale of Tension
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/18Oct12-Palmyra-Massacre-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)It was the fall of 1862 and tensions ran high in northeast Missouri. Local Union and Confederate troops had skirmished…
Teddy Roosevelt National Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/17Oct12-Teddy-Roosevelt-National-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Although his time here in North Dakota was not long if measured in numbers of days…the quality of that time…
The Influence of North Dakota on a President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/16Oct12-Teddy-Roosevelt-National-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)To date, no U.S. president has been born in North Dakota…but this commander-in-chief experienced a rebirth there that he said…
Hi Jolly’s Legacy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/15Oct12-Camel-Caravan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)In Quartzite, Arizona you can find the grave of Hi Jolly. It’s the Americanized name of a man responsible for…
Thinking Outside the Box
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/12Oct12-Camel-Caravan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)How do you move people and supplies across a desert? Well, the answer may depend on what desert you are…
Steamboats in the Middle of a Desert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/11Oct12-Bullhead-City-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)When you picture steamboats, we may have images of stately paddle wheeled ships moving up and down the Mississippi River….
Good Fences and Good Neighbors
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/10Oct12-Bullhead-City-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Every rancher knows they need good fences to keep the herd from running wild on the neighbor’s property. In the…
Arizona’s #2 Tourist Attraction
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/09Oct12-Lake-Havasu-London-Bridge.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 2.3MB)When bridges become obsolete, they are usually torn down and sold for scrap. This city thought their over century old…
Lake Havasu
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/08Oct12-Lake-Havasu.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 2.3MB)This city is not even 40 years old, yet it grown to over 60,000 residents. When you consider it’s in…
Making a Birch Bark Canoe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/05Oct12-Grand-Portage-Canoe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 2.3MB)Today you can find many canoes made from aluminum or fiberglass, but you don’t see many constructed of Birch bark….
The Northwest Company
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/04Oct12-Grand-Portage-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 2.3MB)Normally companies who operate illegally do so by carefully hiding their activities. This company made no such move to operate…
16 Weeks in a Canoe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/03Oct12-Grand-Portage-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 2.3MB)Imagine paddling a canoe for eight weeks, reaching your destination, and then turning around and paddling eight weeks back home….
The Most Important Commodity in the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/02Oct12-Grand-Portage-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 2.3MB)What is the most important commodity in the world? There are a variety of answers you might get to that…
The Women’s Astronaut Program
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/10/01Oct12-Mercury-Womens-Program.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 2.3MB)In the early 1980′s, the United States put its first woman into space, a full two decades after space travel…
The Official FFA Jacket
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/09/28Sep12-FFA-Jackets.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)A doctor is expected to wear a white coat. A policeman is supposed to have a badge. A cowboy, of…
A Special Street Corner
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/09/27Sep12-Winslow-Arizona.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 2.3MB)This song hit number 12 on the billboard charts 40 years ago, and it’s popularity seems to keep growing. In…