Category: American Countryside
Shreveport’s Easter Connection
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/17Apr25-Shroud-of-Turin-Shreveport-1-.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Easter week is a time Christians celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In Shreveport, Louisiana you’ll find a…
Murder of the Other’s Ancestor
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/16Apr25-Colfax-Massacre-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are an unlikely duo. Turn back the clock to the 1870s, and one ancestor participated in the murder of…
Unknown Local History
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/15Apr25-Colfax-Massacre-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Avery Hamilton began researching his ancestors, he found a chapter of local history unknown to him. The more he…
The Colfax Massacre
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/14Apr25-Colfax-Massacre-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the years after the Civil War, amendments to the U.S. constitution were written to provide former slaves with the…
A Family From Five Points
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/11Apr25-Black-American-West-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If your family lived in the Five Points area of Denver, Colorado in the first half of the 20th century,…
Perception Isn’t Always Reality
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/10Apr25-Black-American-West-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is a cliché that says, “Perception is reality.” For Paul Stewart, his perception growing up was that young men…
Works of Art
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/09Apr25-Troy-Kansas-Peter-Toth-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)To some, they resemble totem poles, but the works of art are more modern and quite intricate. At least one…
The Story of Peter Toth
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/08Apr25-Troy-Kansas-Peter-Toth-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Peter Toth was just a boy when his family was forced to leave Hungary. The event left a lasting impression…
Lincoln’s Furthest Trip West
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/07Apr25-Troy-Kansas-Lincoln-Visit.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)People often associate Abraham Lincoln with the states of Illinois or perhaps his birthplace in Kentucky. But what state is…
Rodeo on a Field Trip
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/04Apr25-Ernest-Muncreif-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many schools take field trips. They’re usually fun events for students to get some time out of the classroom. But…
The Battered Bucket Award
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/03Apr25-Ernest-Muncreif-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are major awards like Oscars, Grammys and Nobel Peace Prizes. Then, there is the Battered Bucket Award. You’ve probably…
Appomattox
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/02Apr25-Appamatox-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)After four years of Civil War the conflict had claimed over 630,000 lives. It was time to begin the long…
Where the Civil War Entered Its Final Chapter
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/01Apr25-Appamatox-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most Americans know it as the place where the Civil War ended. Although that is not technically true, it is…
The Impact on One Colorado Town
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/31Mar25-Steamboat-Springs-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A brick layer from Norway came to this country in the early 1900s. The impact he had in one Colorado…
Mineral Springs Unique from the Rest
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/28Mar25-Steamboat-Springs-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the first farmers and ranchers began to settle this part of north central Colorado, they found a mineral spring…
Breakfast in the Cemetery
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/27Mar25-Charley-Peterson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you happen to drive by the cemetery in Gypsum, Colorado on April 8th, you may find several people serving…
A Man Named Charley Peterson
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/26Mar25-Charley-Peterson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Near Gypsum, Colorado you can still find a small cabin that was the home of a farmer named Charley Peterson. …
Eagle County, Colorado’s Agriculture History
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/25Mar25-Eagle-County-Ag-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When mining didn’t pan out, many here turned to ranching and then to farming. And when it came to growing…
The Only State with a Circular Border
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/24Mar25-The-Only-State-with-a-Circular-Border.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What is the only U.S. state with a circle, or arc, as part of its boundary? There’s only one and…
On Trial on the Underground Railroad
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/21Mar25-On-Trial-on-the-Underground-Railroad.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Underground Railroad was not only a dangerous journey for blacks escaping slavery, but there were also consequences for those…
