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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…
A Geographical Anomaly
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/28Jul25-Ice-Cave-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In north central Pennsylvania you’ll find a geological anomaly that is hard to believe. It’s a specific place that grows…
Fort Sidney, Nebraska
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/25Jul25-Fort-Sidney-Nebraska-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Life in this fort could be monotonous. Life outside this fort in the nearby town could get you killed. It’s…
Protecting the Rail Route
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/24Jul25-Fort-Sidney-Nebraska-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As rail lines were built west across Nebraska, there were sometimes conflicts between native Americans and those construction crews. The…
Home of the Tin Roof Sundae
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/23Jul25-Tin-Roof-Sundae-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)How many ice cream sundaes can a person dish up in one day? Perhaps there is a record somewhere, but…
The Notable Sundry in Potter, Nebraska
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/22Jul25-Tin-Roof-Sundae-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Along Interstate 80 in western Nebraska you’ll find the small town of Potter. Many people zip by the place on…
The Transcontinental Railroad
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/21Jul25-CO-Transcontinental-Railroad-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you wanted to travel from coast to coast by rail in 1870, you might consider a trip that took…
Joining the Ends of the Country
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/18Jul25-CO-Transcontinental-Railroad-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Where was the final spike driven to complete the transcontinental railroad? Promontory, Utah is often declared to be the location,…
The Wyoming Fossil Store
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/17Jul25-Wyoming-Fossil-Store-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I recently visited a very interesting store in southwestern Wyoming. You’ll find quite a price range – everything from twenty-five…
Soft Stone in Wyoming
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/16Jul25-Wyoming-Fossil-Store-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The soft stone of southwestern Wyoming preserves the story of what this area looked like eons ago. It is unique…
Clear Lake, California
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/15Jul25-Clear-Lake-California.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the largest natural lake wholly within the state of California – a beautiful spot that take some effort to…
The Lunchbox Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/14Jul25-Lunchbox-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us had a lunchbox when we were growing up. Debbie did as well, but when her mom tossed…
A Witness Tree
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/11Jul25-Louisiana-Purchase-State-Park-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A witness can be a very important part of building a case. And in this case, the witness is not…
A Point to Measure All Others
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/10Jul25-Louisiana-Purchase-State-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a swamp in rural Arkansas you’ll find a point that literally impacts life and property in several midwestern states. …
Surveying Ground for the Louisiana Purchase
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/09Jul25-Louisiana-Purchase-State-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are about 530 million acres in the Louisiana Purchase that the United State acquired from France in 1803. The…
The Forks, Washington Timber Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/08Jul25-Forks-Washington-Timber-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Certain jobs have their own vocabulary, which is understandable to those who work there but gibberish to everyone else. This…
A City Called Forks
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/07Jul25-Forks-Washington-Timber-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the northwest corner of the state of Washington you will find Olympic National Park. It’s beautiful scenery encompasses most…
