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The Fort Morgan, Colorado Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/25Oct24-Fort-Morgan-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The initial route of the Oregon Trail followed the North Platte River, but over time, some decided to follow the…
The Julesburg, Colorado Dragstrip
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/24Oct24-Julesburg-Dragstrip.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Julesburg, Colorado you’ll find a small airstrip that has been in use for many decades. But this is much…
Julesburg, Colorado
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/23Oct24-Julesburg-Colorado-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of our towns have a namesake and that is the case for Julesburg, Colorado. But, the “Jules” in Julesburg…
An Important Point on Many Westward Trails
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/22Oct24-Julesburg-Colorado-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The town of Julesburg, Colorado has been an important point on many trails leading west. But it’s history is one…
Acquiring the Best of the Best
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/21Oct24-Fromm-Brothers-Fus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the woods of northern Wisconsin there is a lodge that housed some of the leading businessman of the world. …
George Washington and a Cherry Tree
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/17Oct24-George-Washington-Cherry-Tree.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes a person gains so much fame…they become bigger than life…so is that the case with George Washington and a…
The Hawaiian World Champion Cowboy
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/16Oct24-Hawaiian-World-Champion-Cowboy.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The accomplishment was so spectacular it is still remembered over a century later. A cowboy journeyed thousands of miles to…
Riding 8 Seconds
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/15Oct24-Lane-Frost.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)World class sprinters can complete the 100 meters in under 10 seconds. In this sport, you are world class at…
The Daddy of Them All
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/14Oct24-Cheyenne-Frontier-Days-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s billed as the “Daddy of Them All” and that it is – a rodeo so big and so grand…
Enticing People to Take a Ride
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/11Oct24-Cheyenne-Frontier-Days-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The railroad was looking for ways to entice people to ride the rails for one day excursions to see unique…
Hatch Show Prints
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/10Oct24-Hatch-Show-Print-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Inside the Country Music Hall of Fame you’ll find a shop with roots that go all the way back to…
What Nashville Was Originally Known For
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/09Oct24-Hatch-Show-Print-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we think of Nashville as a city for country music. Back in the late 1800s, there was music here,…
Developing a Silver Fox
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/18Oct24-Fromm-Brothers-Fus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Fromm Brothers might be said to have been as “sly as a fox.” That’s because their business plan led…
Matchstick Marvels
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/08Oct24-Matchstick-Marvels-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I had long wanted to go see what so many people had told me about. A small gallery of sorts…
A Unique Hobby
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/07Oct24-Matchstick-Marvels-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A lot of folks have hobbies. Most of those pastimes are purely for one’s own enjoyment, but occasionally, some of…
The Lewes, Delaware Sideshow
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/04Oct24-Lewes-Sideshow.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many a circus has it’s main acts and then has a sideshow to entice people to pay to see unusual…
A Great Treasure Hunt
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/03Oct24-Delawares-Sunken-Treasure-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was a great treasure hunt taking place off the shore of Lewes, Delaware. The real treasure though was perhaps…
Delaware’s Sunken Treasure
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/02Oct24-Delawares-Sunken-Treasure-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When a British ship sank off the coast of Delaware in the late 1700s, some of the crew was lost…
The First Town in the First State
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/01Oct24-First-Town-in-the-First-State.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s referred to as the first town in the country’s first state…that first state being the first one to ratify…
A Homecoming Dance Like None Other
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/30Sep24-Cadillac-Michigan-KISS-Football-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There perhaps has never been a homecoming dance like the 1975 Cadillac, Michigan version. The students and the entire town…
