Category: American Countryside
When Caskets Floated
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/31May16-New-Orleans-Cemetery-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Once a casket is buried, you probably expect it to stay in the ground. The fact that the caskets here…
Campbell’s Resort
There are lake resorts all across this nation…but it’s not everyday that you encounter a family owned operation that has been in business for over…
A Century Old Vacation Spot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/27May16-Campbells-Resort-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In an age of hotel chains boasting hundreds of locations, it is still nice to find some lodgings with the…
Roy Bean’s Jersey Lilly
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/26May16-Judge-Roy-Bean-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Housing a bar and a courtroom in the same location may seem a bit odd today. It was unusual back…
The Judge ‘West of the Pecos’
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/25May16-Judge-Roy-Bean-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was the man who dispensed law “West of the Pecos.” His unique way of ruling on legal questions is…
The Law of Langtry
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/24May16-Judge-Roy-Bean-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We may not like the rules, but every place needs them. cheap jerseys And with the rules comes a person to…
The Adventures of Roy Bean
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/23May16-Judge-Roy-Bean-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Roy Bean found a steady job supplying railroad work camps. Then he discovered something rail workers really wanted…something to drink…
The Farmer’s Branch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/20May16-Farmers-Branch.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The name Farmer’s Branch sums up the beginning of this place. cheap nfl jerseys A rich ag community along a north…
The Kickapoo Attack at Fort Lancaster
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/19May16-Fort-Lancaster-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You might think of a “fort” as a place with high, secure walls that could repel an attack. The reality…
An Abandoned Fort in the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/18May16-Fort-Lancaster-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the Civil War began, U.S. troops at some forts suddenly found men headed two different directions, north or south. …
The Army’s Camel Train
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/17May16-Fort-Lancaster-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before the days or cars and trucks, horses and mules were often called upon to bear the load. But at…
Fort Lancaster, Texas
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…
Missouri Star Quilt
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…
Small Town – Big Quilt
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…
Retrieving a Boot – In Front of 80,000
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…
Helping Train a Well-known Horse
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…
Moore’s Creek
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…
All Kinds of Currencies
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…
Offering a Blank Check for a Cabin
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…
President Roosevelt’s Favorite Song – Why it Matters!
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. …