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…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/10Aug12-Squirrel-Cage-Jail-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Prisoners have used many different methods to escape from their cells.  A man in this jail crawled through pipes of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/09Aug12-Squirrel-Cage-Jail-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.1MB)If you seem to be busy, but going nowhere in life, you might be said to be a “hamster in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/08/08Aug12-John-Browns-Cave-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)For a decade, this place kept its true purpose a secret.  To do otherwise would jeopardize those who came here….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/07Aug12-John-Browns-Cave-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)This small log cabin has been in Nebraska City for over 150 years.  It appears to be much like other…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/03Aug12-Bucks-County-Pennsylvania.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)There are many places in the United States that were once thriving agricultural areas and are now under pressure from…

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