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The Battered Bucket Award
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/03Apr25-Ernest-Muncreif-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are major awards like Oscars, Grammys and Nobel Peace Prizes. Then, there is the Battered Bucket Award. You’ve probably…
Appomattox
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/02Apr25-Appamatox-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)After four years of Civil War the conflict had claimed over 630,000 lives. It was time to begin the long…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
