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Posted in American Countryside Virginia

Where the Civil War Entered Its Final Chapter

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/01Apr25-Appamatox-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most Americans know it as the place where the Civil War ended.  Although that is not technically true, it is…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

The Impact on One Colorado Town

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/31Mar25-Steamboat-Springs-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A brick layer from Norway came to this country in the early 1900s.  The impact he had in one Colorado…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

Mineral Springs Unique from the Rest

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/28Mar25-Steamboat-Springs-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the first farmers and ranchers began to settle this part of north central Colorado, they found a mineral spring…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

Breakfast in the Cemetery

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/27Mar25-Charley-Peterson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you happen to drive by the cemetery in Gypsum, Colorado on April 8th, you may find several people serving…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

A Man Named Charley Peterson

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/26Mar25-Charley-Peterson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Near Gypsum, Colorado you can still find a small cabin that was the home of a farmer named Charley Peterson. …

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

Eagle County, Colorado’s Agriculture History

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/25Mar25-Eagle-County-Ag-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When mining didn’t pan out, many here turned to ranching and then to farming.  And when it came to growing…

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Posted in American Countryside Delaware

The Only State with a Circular Border

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/24Mar25-The-Only-State-with-a-Circular-Border.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What is the only U.S. state with a circle, or arc, as part of its boundary?  There’s only one and…

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Posted in American Countryside Delaware

On Trial on the Underground Railroad

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/21Mar25-On-Trial-on-the-Underground-Railroad.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Underground Railroad was not only a dangerous journey for blacks escaping slavery, but there were also consequences for those…

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Posted in American Countryside Delaware

Delaware Declares Its Independence

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/20Mar25-Delaware-Declares-Independence.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When is Independence Day?  Most of us would say July 4th, but for residents of this state, it’s a few…

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Posted in American Countryside Delaware

The Battle for Delaware

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/18Mar25-Zach-Arend-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of the early Europeans settlement of what became the Unites States, you probably don’t think of a…

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Posted in American Countryside Nebraska

Learning Through Rodeo

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/18Mar25-Zach-Arend-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What can saddle bronc riding teach you about leadership, business and life?  It turns out, quite a lot.  This former…

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Posted in American Countryside Nebraska

Signing Up for Bull Riding

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/17Mar25-Zach-Arend-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most mothers would be worried about their teenage son riding a bull.  This mother signed her son up to ride…

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Posted in American Countryside Montana

The Grant Kohrs Ranch

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/14Mar25-Grant-Kohrs-Ranch-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Ranchers know that winter weather can sometimes toss brutal conditions at us.  It was one bitter winter in Montana in…

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Posted in American Countryside Montana

Trading One Steer for Two

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/13Mar25-Grant-Kohrs-Ranch-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you could trade one steer for two, and you did that over and over, you could build quite a…

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Posted in American Countryside Nevada

I’ve Got It!

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/12Mar25-Eureka-Nevada.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are a miner and struck it rich, you might shout this one word, and that one word is…

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Posted in American Countryside Nevada

Settling West to East

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/11Mar25-Settling-West-to-East.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most Europeans who came to the United States made the trip overland, east to west, to reach the place they…

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Posted in American Countryside Nevada

The Battle of Battle Mountain

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/10Mar25-Battle-of-Battle-Mountain.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The name of this town sounds like there was some major trouble that took place here sometime in the past. …

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Posted in American Countryside New Hampshire

Clark’s Trading Post

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/07Mar25-Clarks-Trading-Post-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a animal show where bears bolted from the stage to barrel past tourist and make a break for the…

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Posted in American Countryside New Hampshire

A Roadside Stopper

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/06Mar25-Clarks-Trading-Post-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Along I-93 in northern New Hampshire you’ll find a spot that’s been attracting families for three and four generations now….

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Posted in American Countryside California

Tule Lake Internment Camp

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/05Mar25-Tule-Lake-Internment-Camp.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Soon after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government began to worry that Japanese Americans living in this country…

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