http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/04Nov12-Lincoln-Log-Cabin-Slavery-Case.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Abraham Lincoln is known as the great emancipator, a champion of ending slavery in the United States.  However, in the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/02Nov12-Double-Decker-Outhouse.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Outhouses built before the ear of indoor plumbing are becoming hard to find.  Now try finding a double-decker outhouse.  That…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/10/31Oct12-Spook-Light.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)People like to have answers, and perhaps that’s what makes this phenomena so interesting. There seems to be no explaining…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/10/30Oct12-Circus-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 2.3MB)It all began with Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles, and John. Without their last names, those first names might not mean…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/29Oct12-Joe-and-Aggies-Restaurant.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)If you own a restaurant that’s been in business for over 70 years, you’re probably doing some very good cooking!…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/26Oct12-Island-Mound-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)You may have never heard of the Battle of Island Mound.  However, what occurred there in the fall of 1862…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/25Oct12-Island-Mound-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Where did the first former slaves take up arms and fight with the Union army?  You may be surprised to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/24Oct12-Island-Mound-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)In the years leading up to the Civil War, counties adjacent to the Missouri-Kansas border saw bloodshed as pro and…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/23Oct12-Jim-Grey-Petrified-Wood.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Jim says he’s in the treasure hunting business.  He’s looking for items that are worth tens of thousands of dollars…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/22Oct12-Yuma-Arizona-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)George Strait once sang that he had some oceanfront property in Arizona and if you’d buy that he’d throw the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/19Oct12-Palmyra-Massacre-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)War sometimes touches the lives of innocent people – citizens not involved in the conflict, yet caught in the middle…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/18Oct12-Palmyra-Massacre-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)It was the fall of 1862 and tensions ran high in northeast Missouri.  Local Union and Confederate troops had skirmished…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/17Oct12-Teddy-Roosevelt-National-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Although his time here in North Dakota was not long if measured in numbers of days…the quality of that time…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/16Oct12-Teddy-Roosevelt-National-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)To date, no U.S. president has been born in North Dakota…but this commander-in-chief experienced a rebirth there that he said…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/15Oct12-Camel-Caravan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)In Quartzite, Arizona you can find the grave of Hi Jolly.  It’s the Americanized name of a man responsible for…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/12Oct12-Camel-Caravan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)How do you move people and supplies across a desert?  Well, the answer may depend on what desert you are…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/11Oct12-Bullhead-City-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)When you picture steamboats, we may have images of stately paddle wheeled ships moving up and down the Mississippi River….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/10Oct12-Bullhead-City-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Every rancher knows they need good fences to keep the herd from running wild on the neighbor’s property.  In the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/09Oct12-Lake-Havasu-London-Bridge.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 2.3MB)When bridges become obsolete, they are usually torn down and sold for scrap.  This city thought their over century old…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/08Oct12-Lake-Havasu.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 2.3MB)This city is not even 40 years old, yet it grown to over 60,000 residents.  When you consider it’s in…