Author: Tom
Bronner’s Christmas Store
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/22Dec22-Bronners-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. It’s big business in…
From Military Post to Ghost Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/21Dec22-Camp-Floyd-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For three years, 3500 soldiers served alongside one another in Utah Territory. It was the largest military outpost in the…
Putting Down a Mormon Rebellion
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/20Dec22-Camp-Floyd-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the summer of 1858 U.S. soldiers went to Utah to put down a supposed Mormon rebellion. However, their three…
Camp Floyd
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/19Dec22-Camp-Floyd-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1857 rumors of rebellion made it to the oval office. President James Buchannan ordered troops to head to the…
A Small Town Grocery Store
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/16Dec22-Friend-Nebraska-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you live in or near a very small town, it’s a big blow when you lose your grocery store. …
You’ve Got a Friend in Friend
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/15Dec22-Friend-Nebraska-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes you need a good friend. In this case, the good friend is the entire town. After all, it’s in…
Blue & Gold Sausage
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/14Dec22-Blue-Gold-Sausage.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This FFA advisor found a fund raiser that was so successful, he had to quit teaching just to operate the…
Kidder Massacre
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/13Dec22-Kidder-Massacre.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today messages can be relayed to a military patrol within a split second. But in the 1860s, it took a…
The Goodland Flying Machine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/12Dec22-Goodland-Helicopter.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The first operational helicopters took flight in the 1930s. Widespread production of the aircraft didn’t occur for another decade…
The Cowboy War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/09Dec22-Leota-Cowboy-War-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was proclaimed the Cowboy War by national newspapers. It was truly a battle that required some of the biggest…
Fighting for the County Seat
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/08Dec22-Leota-Cowboy-War-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I’ve heard several stories over the years about towns fighting to be proclaimed the county seat in the early years…
Work That Saved the Lives of Millions
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/07Dec22-Norman-Borlaug-Home-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In an era when most farm boys completed eighth grade at most, this family saw something in their son that…
The Old Farmhouse That Impacted the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/06Dec22-Norman-Borlaug-Home-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The old farmhouse that sits about a dozen miles south of Cresco, Iowa that probably appears a lot like other…
Serving from the Civil War to WWII
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/05Dec22-USS-Constellation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)She was built in 1854 and one hundred years later she was still serving in the U.S. navy. We get…
USS Constellation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/02Dec22-USS-Constellation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A trip to the Baltimore harbor will provide you a glimpse of many ships. But it is perhaps the oldest…
Rescue at Sea
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/01Dec22-USS-Indianapolis-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Japan surrendered to the U.S, Americans rejoiced to know that the conflict was coming to an end. Buried in…
The Story of Survival – USS Indianapolis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/30Nov22-USS-Indianapolis-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve shared many stories of veterans on this show over the years. All are important stories, yet this one stands…
Top Secret Cargo Destined for Japan
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/29Nov22-USS-Indianapolis-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As August of 1945 neared, one ship took a top secret cargo across the Pacific. But for the men of…
The Remarkable Service of Paul Murphy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/28Nov22-USS-Indianapolis-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He grew up in the heart of the Midwest but during world war II his life at sea would become…
The Mayflower’s Landing Spot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/25Nov22-Mayflower-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we associate the Pilgrims with the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts. However, the landing spot was a bit accidental…
