Author: Tom
An Important Story of America
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/21May25-Wendover-Airfield-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you head west from Salt Lake City you cross the Salt Lake Desert and the first town you’ll come…
The Celebration of Cinco de Mayo
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/20May25-Cinco-de-Mayo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many Americans celebrate Cinco de Mayo every May, but the date does not garner as much attention in Mexico. So…
Columbia, California
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/19May25-Cinco-de-Mayo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Southeast of Sacramento you’ll find many towns that trace their roots to the gold rush days of the late 1840s. …
The History of Baker, Montana
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/16May25-Baker-Montana-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people don’t look at a road atlas these days when they need to go somewhere. However, if you visit…
The Famous Steer from Baker, Montana
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/15May25-Steer-Montana-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most steers don’t live to the age of 15 years old. When one does, well, there’s probably an interesting story…
The Steer that Became Quite the Show
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/14May25-Steer-Montana-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1920s and 30s, one farmer in southeastern Montana was raising some of the largest steers the country had…
Fort Saint Jean Baptiste
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/13May25-Fort-Saint-Jean-Baptiste-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Within the boundaries of one of northwest Louisiana’s larger cities, you’ll find an old fort. It was this outpost around…
Home to the Caddo Nation
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/12May25-Fort-Saint-Jean-Baptiste-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In northwestern Louisiana you’ll find lands once the home to the Caddo Nation. When the first European explorers came here,…
Winning An Old West Shootout
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/09May25-Wild-Bill-Hickok-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)John Sellers says the key to winning an old-west shootout was not quickness, but accuracy. And when you take into…
Shooting Over a Bad Debt
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/08May25-Wild-Bill-Hickok-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a movie “western” you might see two gunslingers fire their pistols at each other in the town square. That’s…
Unsettled Scores
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/07May25-Wild-Bill-Hickok-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the Civil War ended, there were still many unsettled scores of course. Towns along the border with North and…
Named for Lincoln Before He was President
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/06May25-Named-for-LIncoln-Before-He-Was-President.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s common that towns, school and other sites are named in honor of U.S. Presidents. So it’s natural that most…
The Phone Booth on Top of City Hall
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/05May25-Phone-Booth-on-City-Hall.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today technology can help us predict and spot several storms that may be headed our way. Of course, there was…
Fort Jesup
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/02May25-Fort-Jesup-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of this fort, yet it was very important in the United State’s war…
The Parts of the Louisiana Purchase
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/01May25-Fort-Jesup-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the United States made the Louisiana Purchase they didn’t get all of today’s state of Louisiana. Today I’ll take…
The Simpson’s Springfield
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/30Apr25-Springfield-VT-The-Simpsons.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many towns in this country named Springfield, but only one can be home to this fictional tv family. …
Springfield, Vermont History
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/29Apr25-Springfield-VT-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is some evidence this place in Vermont was in the crosshairs of the German military during World War II…
The Old Round Church
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/28Apr25-Old-Round-Church.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A church doesn’t want to leave any place for the devil to hide. This old church took that to heart…
Hyde Cabin
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/25Apr25-Hero-Island-Lake-Champlain-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The oldest log cabin in New England is on an island in Vermont. It’s a spot you can visit today,…
Lake Champlain
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/24Apr25-Hero-Island-Lake-Champlain-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the northeastern part of Vermont you’ll find Lake Champlain, and in that body of water there are the Hero…
