Author: Tom
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Walter Kronkite Memorial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/25Apr16-Walter-Kronkite-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)How fast do you speak? You’ve probably never thought about it, but this man knew the exact pace he needed…
The Most Trusted Man in America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/22Apr16-Walter-Kronkite-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was known as “the most trusted man in America.” That’s a big title to live up to, but one…
A Heroic War Correspondent
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/21Apr16-Walter-Kronkite-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)This man made a name for himself as a war correspondent. In fact, he even flew into the front lines…
The “Other” History at Fort Knox
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/20Apr16-Fort-Knox-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When most of us hear of Fort Knox, we think of gold. While gold is there, there is much more…
Who Has the Most Gold In the US?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/19Apr16-Fort-Knox-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Whether you have any or not, many of us are fascinated by gold. It’s the storyline of many a tv…
Is the Gold Still at Fort Knox?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/18Apr16-Fort-Knox-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Everyone knows that much of the nation’s gold is at Fort Knox. Or is it? That’s the question many wondered…
Building the Vault at Fort Knox
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/12Apr16-Boundary-Oak-Distillery-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of the gold at Fort Knox, and while we can’t go inside the vault, we do know much…
