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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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….
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…
The Modoc War
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/04Mar25-Modoc-War-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the middle of a lava field in northern California you’ll find a place known as the stronghold…a volcanic fortress…
Forced to Foreign Lands
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/03Mar25-Modoc-War-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As European settlers moved west, Native Americans were often displaced and forced onto lands foreign to them. That was the…
The Chiricuhua National Monument
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/28Feb25-Chiricuhua-National-Monument-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Southeastern Arizona has been a place for ranchers to graze cattle for well over a century. However, one ranch family…
Where Two Cultures Collided
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/27Feb25-Chiricuhua-National-Monument-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a place of amazing natural beauty, with stone spires rising high into the sky. It’s also a place of…
The Okay Corral in Tombstone, Arizona
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/26Feb25-Tombstone-Okay-Corral.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This corral isn’t famous for holding cattle, but it is famous for the shootout that put this town on the…
