Today we head to the easternmost point in United States territory.  It’s a place that was inhabited for over 1500 years before Columbus ever showed…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/16Oct23-Quackery-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all heard that some things are just too good to be true.  That’s in a sense the theme to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/13Oct23-Marshall-Minnesota-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us are familiar with the movie Hoosiers, the story of a small Indiana school that wins the state…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/12Oct23-Marshall-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Depending on where you live, you may know this company, not by where it is located but rather by where…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/11Oct23-Marshall-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The land that surrounds a town often has a big impact on the types of industries that will spring up…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/10Oct23-San-Juan-Puerto-Rico-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This impressive fort has stood watch over the Atlantic for nearly 400 years.  For some of those sentrys who scanned…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/09Oct23-San-Juan-Puerto-Rico-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are looking for one of the first places Europeans explorers touched land in what is today the United…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/06Oct23-Kafir-Corn-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve probably never heard of Kafir Corn.  However, turn back the clock a century and you may have been hearing…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/05Oct23-Kafir-Corn-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The first settlers to this region began to farm the land, but drought and grasshoppers made life miserable for most. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/04Oct23-Coranodo-Quivera-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The early trails that moved settlers from east to west often charted courses that helped reduce the number of obstacles…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/03Oct23-Coranodo-Quivera-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are a Spanish explorer searching the New World for gold, the place you’d come look of course would…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/02Oct23-Coranodo-Quivera-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The area around Lyons, Kansas in the central part of the Sunflower State may appear to be sparsely populated by…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/29Sep23-Columbia-Falls-Montana-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are called the Back Country Horseman.  Their work is something that may have impacted you and you never realized…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/28Sep23-Columbia-Falls-Montana-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Placing explosives on the backs of mules sounds like an unusual job, but it was just part of the work…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/27Sep23-Columbia-Falls-Montana-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all seen old time pictures of mule trains packing supplies to some remote location.  However, Stu Sorenson will tell…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/26Sep23-Glacier-National-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We recently did some shows from the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park.  Also impressive is another park lodge…this…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/25Sep23-Glacier-National-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Along Montana’s border with Canada you’ll find one of the most popular and most scenic national parks in the country. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/22Sep23-Eugene-Boone-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the tragic events that unfolded in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated, we may forget that a police officer…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/21Sep23-Eugene-Boone-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In November of 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy.  Just two days later, Jack Ruby shot Oswald.  Deputy Eugene…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/20Sep23-Eugene-Boone-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the early afternoon of November 22nd, 1963, Deputy Eugene Boone was searching the 6th floor of the Texas School…