Category: American Countryside
The 20 Mule Team
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/15Jun15-Death-Valley-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some of you might remember 20 mule team borax and the old episodes of the Death Valley TV show. Today…
How Death Valley Earned Its Name
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/12Jun15-Death-Valley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Because Death Valley is such a difficult environment to support plant and animal life…most suppose that is how it earned…
Zig-Zagging Down the Runway
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/18Jun15-Strategic-Air-Museum-Pilot-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The first time Don tried to fly this plane, he must have appeared to be a drunk pilot, for his…
A Place of Beauty and Danger
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/11Jun15-Death-Valley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On the border of California and Nevada you will find a place that has daunted countless travelers for the past…
Walk the Streets of a Fictional Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Jun15-Old-Tuscon-Studios-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many movie greats have walked the streets of this fictional town, and you can too. It’s a story that has…
Building Homes and Movie Stars
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/0Jun15-Old-Tuscon-Studios-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s tough to find someone skilled in building an adobe home. So this movie studio called on some experts who…
A Town Built for Hollywood
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/08Jun15-Old-Tuscon-Studios-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It the early days of movies, most were shot on lots in Hollywood, but one of the first ventures outside…
A Boom Town Called Tombstone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/05Jun15-Tombstone-Courthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the 1880’s, stagecoaches brought dozens of people each day to a boom town called Tombstone. But it was a…
Dig Your Grave When You Get There
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/04Jun15-Tombstone-Courthouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When this man set out to find his fortune he was told he’d need to dig his grave when he…
Demonstrating a New Rifle at the White House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Jun15-Spencer-Rifle.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Imagine that you had developed a new type of rifle that could helpful to the US Military. How would you…
The World’s Greatest Athlete
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/02Jun15-Jim-Thorpe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In 1912, he was proclaimed “The World’s Greatest Athlete” and some of his Olympic records stood two decades later. He…
Bartering Is What Built the Place
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/01Jun15-Buckhorn-Saloon.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When people can’t pay cash for items they want, they may try to barter. That’s what this saloon did, and…
From the Field to the Press Box
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/29May15-Rex-Hudler-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)His major league career spanned over 20 seasons and even included a stint in Japan. He’s still a part of…
When Mom Negotiates Your Major League Contract
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/28May15-Rex-Hudler-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today’s sports stars often have high powered agents who negotiate their contracts. However, this first round draft pick simply turned…
Dreams of Playing Professional Sports
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/27May15-Rex-Hudler-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Many young boys have dreams of playing pro sports. This man had many sports from which to choose which left…
West of the Mississippi to Illinois
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/26May15-Kaskaskia-2015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today we head west of the Mississippi to the State of Illinois. Yes, west of the Mississippi to the State of…
A Man of Legend
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/25May15-Harpers-Ferry-2015-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)He is a man of legend…a man whose story may be larger than life…a renegade who history now looks upon…
One of the Busiest and Important Towns in the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/22May15-Harpers-Ferry-2015-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today the place is almost a ghost town. But over a century ago it was one of the busiest and…
How a Sixteen Year Old Saved the United States
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/21May15-Wheeling-Revolution-2015-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Where did the American Revolution end? Why Wheeling, West Virginia of course–when a sixteen year old girl saved the newly…
A String A Battles on the Western Frontier
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/20May15-Wheeling-Revolution-2015-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a chapter of the American Revolution that few know today–a string of battles fought on what was then the…
