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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/16May16-Fort-Lancaster-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today’s traveler might meet the occasional challenge of a traffic jam or a flat tire, but the travelers here back…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/13May16-Missouri-Star-Quilt-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a nice sunny day in Hamilton, Missouri, with a population of not even 2000, but unlike a lot of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/12May16-Missouri-Star-Quilt-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What kind of businesses help bring small towns to life?  Today’s example may surprise you, but it has folks from…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/11May16-Warpaint-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine you could run so fast that you lost your boots!  That’s what happened here.  This is the lady who…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/10May16-Warpaint-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many teenagers that like to ride horses, but few get the chance to train a horse that’s seen…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/09May16-Moores-Creek.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It is a small bridge over a small creek.  It was a big victory in an even larger war…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/06May16-Multiple-Currencies.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One, five, ten, twenty? Now imagine there were more denominations and dozens of different types of bills in circulation. What…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/05May16-Home-on-the-Range-Cabin-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a place so important, the owners were once offered a blank check if they would sell.  It’s a story…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/04May16-Home-on-the-Range-Cabin-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the best known songs of that past century.  In fact, one president said it was his favorite. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/03May16-Home-on-the-Range-Cabin-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may not fancy yourself a poet, and you may have forgotten a poem called My Western Home.  But in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/02May16-Dalles-Oregon-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s said to be the most dangerous route a postman ever took.  In fact, the route was eventually removed from…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/29Apr16-Dalles-Oregon-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)He did not want to come to America and once he got here he quickly made arrangement to go back…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/28Apr16-Dalles-Oregon-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Life at a frontier outpost could sometime be isolated and lacking the amenities of affluence.  This commander had a plan…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/27Apr16-Dalles-Oregon-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the more unusual place names in America.  The Dalles.  Where is it and what is it?  If…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/26Apr16-Jesse-James-Train-Robbery.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Great train robberies are the stuff of some great wild west movies.  In real life though, they say the first…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/25Apr16-Walter-Kronkite-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)How fast do you speak?  You’ve probably never thought about it, but this man knew the exact pace he needed…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/22Apr16-Walter-Kronkite-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was known as “the most trusted man in America.”  That’s a big title to live up to, but one…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/21Apr16-Walter-Kronkite-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)This man made a name for himself as a war correspondent.  In fact, he even flew into the front lines…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/20Apr16-Fort-Knox-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When most of us hear of Fort Knox, we think of gold.  While gold is there, there is much more…