Author: Tom
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…
Nathan Hale
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/25Feb25-Nathan-Hale-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)His only regret was that he had but one life to give for his country. They are famous words uttered…
America’s First Spy
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/24Feb25-Nathan-Hale-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many refer to him as America’s first spy – a young man from a farm who answered George Washington’s call…
A Name You Still Know Today
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/21Feb25-Nathan-Hale-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was the sixth of twelve children born on a 300 acre farm in central Connecticut. While all of the…
A 150 Year Old Donut
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/20Feb25-150-Year-Old-Donut.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a donut in Montana, that while very interesting, is not a donut anyone probably wants to consume. That’s because…
Fort Kehough
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/19Feb25-Fort-Keough.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Miles City, Montana is a hub for the ranch lands of the southeastern part of the state. Part of its…
Range Riders Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/18Feb25-Range-Riders-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1930s a group of cowboys in southeastern Montana wanted to preserve the ranch history they saw slowly vanishing. …
Nevada City, Montana
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/17Feb25-Nevada-City-Montana-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What would a jukebox from the 1800s look like? A trip to this old Montana town will give you a…
Preserving History in Montana
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/14Feb25-Nevada-City-Montana-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people like to preserve a piece of the past. What this family did here was preserve an entire town…
A Montana Gold Mining Town
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/13Feb25-Nevada-City-Montana-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just northwest of Yellowstone National Park you’ll find some old mining towns with quite a story. When gold was found…
The Pancake Days in Glenn, Michigan
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/12Feb25-Glenn-Michigan-Pancake-Days.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Occasionally a winter storm will leave motorists stranded and locals will come to their aid. That was the case in…
