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Making a Great Cowboy Hat
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/27Jun22-Limpia-Creek-Hats-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every cowboy needs a cowboy hat. There are plenty of places you can buy a hat, but this small shop…
The $25 Million Dollar Room
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/24Jun22-Museum-of-the-Big-Bend-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a moment I’ll take you to a small room, about the size of a large walk-in closet, that’s insured…
Taking the Southern Route
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/23Jun22-Museum-of-the-Big-Bend-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As settlers moved from east to west across this continent they were looking for the best route to reach the…
Museum of the Big Bend
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/22Jun22-Museum-of-the-Big-Bend-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Big Bend region of Texas is a place where mountain chains meet but few people stayed. The land was…
The Old Hoover Powerhouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/21Jun22-Kingman-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before Hoover Dam supplied electricity for this region of the southwest, this old powerhouse generated the electricity. In fact, in…
Kingman, Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/20Jun22-Kingman-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Dinosaurs, caves and safari parks are the things summer road trips are made of. Perhaps that’s why the combination still…
Elmer Long’s Bottle Tree Forest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/17Jun22-Elmer-Long-Bottle-Tree.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Elmer Long doesn’t manage a national forest, but it may be the most unique collection of trees in the nation. …
The Disneyland of Diving
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/16Jun22-Duluth-Aquarium-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have seen folks on tv diving to explore old shipwrecks. Most of the time we may think of…
Where the Cold Water Meets the Warm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/15Jun22-Duluth-Aquarium-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lots of people love to go fishing, and even if you’re one of the folks that doesn’t care much for…
Duluth’s Great Lakes Aquarium
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/14Jun22-Duluth-Aquarium-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One of the most recognizable structures in Duluth, and in the state of Minnesota for that matter, is the famous…
519 N 3rd Avenue East, Duluth, Minnesota
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/13Jun22-Dylan-Boyhood-Home-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The home at of 519 N 3rd Ave. East in Duluth, Minnesota looks much like the ones surrounding it. In…
Do You Know Robert Zimmerman?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/10Jun22-Dylan-Boyhood-Home-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Robert Zimmerman perhaps sounds like a fairly common name. This young man was born in Duluth, Minnesota, later moving to…
Did You See That Fencepost?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/09Jun22-Joe-Jeffrey-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every cattleman needs good fences to keep the herd from roaming free. Joe Jeffrey has seen many miles of those…
Getting the Water Where You Need It
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/08Jun22-Joe-Jeffrey-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can plant a crop in the ground, but without water it will do very little. The farmers of this…
Mile-Long Bridges Over Dry River Beds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/07Jun22-Joe-Jeffrey-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the first residents of this area began building bridges to cross the nearby river, they found they often needed…
National D-Day Memorial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/06Jun22-D-Day-Memorial-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s been several decades since allied troops landed at Normandy on D-day. Over four thousand men gave their lives that…
The Boys from Bedford
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/03Jun22-D-Day-Memorial-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of those who served in World War II actually joined the armed forces before the tradgedy at Pearl Harbor. …
Remembering Those Who Served
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/02Jun22-Bob-Garst-D-Day-Memorial.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s estimated that over three million military men and women served in Vietnam and neighboring nations during the Vietnam War. …
Chain of Rocks Bridge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/01Jun22-Chain-of-Rocks-Bridge.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The development of not only cars, but roads themselves has improved safety and lessened highway fatalities. But in the 1920s…
An Important Place for Fans of Baseball
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/31May22-Cooperstown-Doubleday-Field.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This town has under 2000 residents, yet it hosts thousands of visitors each year and is arguably the most important…
