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The Adventures of Roy Bean

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/23May16-Judge-Roy-Bean-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Roy Bean found a steady job supplying railroad work camps.  Then he discovered something rail workers really wanted…something to drink…

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The Farmer’s Branch

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/20May16-Farmers-Branch.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The name Farmer’s Branch sums up the beginning of this place. cheap nfl jerseys A rich ag community along a north…

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The Kickapoo Attack at Fort Lancaster

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/19May16-Fort-Lancaster-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You might think of a “fort” as a place with high, secure walls that could repel an attack.  The reality…

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An Abandoned Fort in the Civil War

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/18May16-Fort-Lancaster-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the Civil War began, U.S. troops at some forts suddenly found men headed two different directions, north or south. …

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The Army’s Camel Train

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/17May16-Fort-Lancaster-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before the days or cars and trucks, horses and mules were often called upon to bear the load.  But at…

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Fort Lancaster, Texas

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/16May16-Fort-Lancaster-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today’s traveler might meet the occasional challenge of a traffic jam or a flat tire, but the travelers here back…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

Missouri Star Quilt

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/13May16-Missouri-Star-Quilt-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a nice sunny day in Hamilton, Missouri, with a population of not even 2000, but unlike a lot of…

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Small Town – Big Quilt

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/12May16-Missouri-Star-Quilt-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What kind of businesses help bring small towns to life?  Today’s example may surprise you, but it has folks from…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas City Missouri

Retrieving a Boot – In Front of 80,000

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/11May16-Warpaint-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine you could run so fast that you lost your boots!  That’s what happened here.  This is the lady who…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas City Missouri

Helping Train a Well-known Horse

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/10May16-Warpaint-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many teenagers that like to ride horses, but few get the chance to train a horse that’s seen…

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Moore’s Creek

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/09May16-Moores-Creek.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It is a small bridge over a small creek.  It was a big victory in an even larger war…

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All Kinds of Currencies

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/06May16-Multiple-Currencies.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One, five, ten, twenty? Now imagine there were more denominations and dozens of different types of bills in circulation. What…

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Offering a Blank Check for a Cabin

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/05May16-Home-on-the-Range-Cabin-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a place so important, the owners were once offered a blank check if they would sell.  It’s a story…

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President Roosevelt’s Favorite Song – Why it Matters!

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/04May16-Home-on-the-Range-Cabin-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the best known songs of that past century.  In fact, one president said it was his favorite. …

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My Western Home – A Poem You Know!

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/03May16-Home-on-the-Range-Cabin-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may not fancy yourself a poet, and you may have forgotten a poem called My Western Home.  But in…

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The Most Dangerous Route the Mail Ever Took

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/02May16-Dalles-Oregon-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s said to be the most dangerous route a postman ever took.  In fact, the route was eventually removed from…

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Posted in American Countryside Oregon

Hijacked to America

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/29Apr16-Dalles-Oregon-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)He did not want to come to America and once he got here he quickly made arrangement to go back…

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The Best House at the Fort

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/28Apr16-Dalles-Oregon-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Life at a frontier outpost could sometime be isolated and lacking the amenities of affluence.  This commander had a plan…

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Posted in American Countryside Oregon

What are the Dalles?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/27Apr16-Dalles-Oregon-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the more unusual place names in America.  The Dalles.  Where is it and what is it?  If…

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A Great Train Robbery

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/26Apr16-Jesse-James-Train-Robbery.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Great train robberies are the stuff of some great wild west movies.  In real life though, they say the first…

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