http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/07Sep12-Northfield-Minnesota-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)You probably have not heard of a man named Joseph Lee Haywood.  He died on September 7th, 1876 trying to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/06Sep12-Northfield-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Banks have many security measures to thwart would be robbers.  But in Northfield, Minnesota the best way to prevent a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/05Sep12-Northfield-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.7MB)Everyone knows of the exploits of the Jesse James gang.  They held up banks and trains all across the Midwest….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/04Sep12-Hinkley-Minnesota-Fire-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Imagine a fire that could consumer about 500 square miles in just four hours.  Such a firestorm has not been…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/03Sep12-Hinkley-Minnesota-Fire-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)It sounds like the script of an action adventure movie.  A wall of fire approaches a city as townspeople rush…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/31Aug12-Hinkley-Minnesota.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.7MB)We’re all familiar with Smokey Bear and his warnings to prevent forest fires.  But imagine a fire with fuel that…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/30Aug12-Monument-Valley-Busing.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.7MB)Some students must ride a bus to school.  But imagine a school district where a student might spend nearly six…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/29Aug12-Pencil-Collector.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 2.3MB)Residents in Trenton, Missouri know that when they need a pen or pencil, there’s one man in town that can…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/28Aug12-Monument-Valley-Ag-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.1MB)You may have thought the use of Medicine Men was a thing of the past.  Not here.  In fact, this…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/27Aug12-Monument-Valley-Ag-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.1MB)Clyde McBride may have never imagined he’d be teaching his students about Native American traditions in his High School agriculture…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/24Aug12-Hatch-Chilli.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.7MB)If you play with fire you’re liable to get burned. But on Jim Lidle’s farm, fire is what they grow….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/23Aug12-Munson-Angus.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.1MB)This family has been raising prime Angus cattle for years, but when they had to make the switch to marketing…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/22Aug12-Black-Horse-Hitch-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.1MB)For those who have spent much time around horses, they know that a horse that stands 16 hands high, 64…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/21Aug12-Orphan-Train-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.1MB)Imagine being an orphan boarding a train on the East Coast, not knowing where your next home might be.  That…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/20Aug12-Orphan-Train-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.1MB)In a restored rail depot building in Concordia, Kansas you can find an intriguing story of nearly a quarter million…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/08/17Aug12-Alibates-Flint.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s called Alibates Flint, and this spot in the Texas panhandle is the only place in the world where you…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/16Aug12-Mount-Sunflower-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.7MB)Mt. McKinley.  Mt. Rainier.   Pikes Peak.  They are some of the tallest mountains in the United States.  But this…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/15Aug12-Mount-Sunflower-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.7MB)The Harold family has farmed and ranched along the Kansas-Colorado border for over a century.  Their homestead may appear to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/14Aug12-Carson-County-Carousel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.7MB)We appreciate the folks listening on KNAB in Burlington, Colorado who helped us with a story that’s nearly a century…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/13Aug12-Carson-County-Carousel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.7MB)The general public usually wants its elected officials to be fiscally responsible.  But the purchase the commissioners in Kit Carson…