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Following a Premonition to Move West
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/25Aug25-Mille-Lacs-Lake-Trading-Post-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the largest lakes in the state of Minnesota, and it became the place of settlement for a…
Scissors the Hog
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/22Aug25-Scissors-Hog-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was probably the most valuable hog of his day. His worth was measured in extraordinary sums of money, yet…
A Champion in the Showring
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/21Aug25-Scissors-Hog-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was a champion in the show ring and his fame grew far beyond farm country. In fact, he was…
The Royal Gorge
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/20Aug25-Royal-Gorge-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For over seven decades, this bridge was a record setter, the highest suspension bridge in the world. It continues to…
Amazed by the Natural Beauty
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/19Aug25-Royal-Gorge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thousands of people still drive to this location to be amazed by the natural beauty of this place. It makes…
Quincy’s Coca-Cola Millionaires
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/18Aug25-Quincy-Coca-Cola.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the Great Depression era, Quincy, Florida was a town of nearly 4000 residents. Although times were tough, the advice…
The Cheyenne Depot Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/15Aug25-Cheynne-Depot-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Cheyenne, Wyoming was one of the towns known as “hell on wheels” for its wild railroad boomtown beginnings. You can…
Fort Hartsuff
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/14Aug25-Fort-Hartsuff-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Unless you live in central Nebraska or are perhaps a history buff of the 1870s, you’ve probably near heard of…
An Interesting Fort to Visit
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/13Aug25-Fort-Hartsuff-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just south of Burwell, Nebraska you’ll find a fort that is quite interesting to visit. While there were no major…
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/12Aug25-Shipwreck-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps it’s fitting that you have to go a bit out of the way to find the Great Lakes Shipwreck…
A Place That Didn’t Deter Ship Captains
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/11Aug25-Shipwreck-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some sailors and airman have long feared the Bermuda Triangle for the mysterious fate of some who have passed there. …
Whitefish Point
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/08Aug25-Shipwreck-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On a roadmap, it’s simply listed as “Whitefish Point.” That place name has little significance to most, but for those…
The American Baseball Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/07Aug25-Little-League-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If I mention the town of South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, sports fans will know there is one iconic event that takes…
A Chance For Every Kid to Play Baseball
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/06Aug25-Little-League-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we take for granted that just about every young boy or girl in the country could probably sign up…
The Giant Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/05Aug25-Giants-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A stop in Atlanta, Illinois holds a lot to see and do in a place that isn’t very large. They’ve…
Some Very Unique Giants
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/04Aug25-Giants-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You probably would not think a company making fiberglass boats would have a big impact on a major highway. But…
One of the Best Views of San Francisco Bay
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/01Aug25-Alcatraz-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This island has some of the best views of San Francisco Bay and the city itself…yet most people didn’t want…
An Important Fort in American History
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/31Jul25-Alcatraz-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At one time it was one of the nation’s most important forts…but that’s not how people would know it today. …
Mastadon Park
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/30Jul25-Mastodon-Park.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine you unearthed the bones of an animal and had little idea of what you found. Now imagine making up…
The Ice Cave
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/29Jul25-Ice-Cave-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Since the late 1800s people have been coming to this small, but unusual place on the side of a mountain…
