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The James Gang in Minnesota

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/05Sep12-Northfield-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.7MB)Everyone knows of the exploits of the Jesse James gang.  They held up banks and trains all across the Midwest….

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The Hinkley, Minnesota Firestorm

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/04Sep12-Hinkley-Minnesota-Fire-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Imagine a fire that could consumer about 500 square miles in just four hours.  Such a firestorm has not been…

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A Wall of Fire

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/03Sep12-Hinkley-Minnesota-Fire-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)It sounds like the script of an action adventure movie.  A wall of fire approaches a city as townspeople rush…

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A Fire Building for 24 Years

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/31Aug12-Hinkley-Minnesota.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.7MB)We’re all familiar with Smokey Bear and his warnings to prevent forest fires.  But imagine a fire with fuel that…

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A Long Bus Ride to School

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/30Aug12-Monument-Valley-Busing.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.7MB)Some students must ride a bus to school.  But imagine a school district where a student might spend nearly six…

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Got A Pencil?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/29Aug12-Pencil-Collector.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 2.3MB)Residents in Trenton, Missouri know that when they need a pen or pencil, there’s one man in town that can…

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The Medicine Man and Modern Medicine

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/28Aug12-Monument-Valley-Ag-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.1MB)You may have thought the use of Medicine Men was a thing of the past.  Not here.  In fact, this…

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Teaching Agriculture Classes in a Different Culture

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/27Aug12-Monument-Valley-Ag-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.1MB)Clyde McBride may have never imagined he’d be teaching his students about Native American traditions in his High School agriculture…

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Hatch Chili

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/24Aug12-Hatch-Chilli.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.7MB)If you play with fire you’re liable to get burned. But on Jim Lidle’s farm, fire is what they grow….

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Munson Angus Farms

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/23Aug12-Munson-Angus.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.1MB)This family has been raising prime Angus cattle for years, but when they had to make the switch to marketing…

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The Largest Horse in the Nation?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/22Aug12-Black-Horse-Hitch-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.1MB)For those who have spent much time around horses, they know that a horse that stands 16 hands high, 64…

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Aboard the Orphan Train

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/21Aug12-Orphan-Train-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.1MB)Imagine being an orphan boarding a train on the East Coast, not knowing where your next home might be.  That…

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250,000 New Homes in the Midwest

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/20Aug12-Orphan-Train-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.1MB)In a restored rail depot building in Concordia, Kansas you can find an intriguing story of nearly a quarter million…

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The Alibates Flint Quarry

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/08/17Aug12-Alibates-Flint.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s called Alibates Flint, and this spot in the Texas panhandle is the only place in the world where you…

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On Top of Mount Sunflower

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/16Aug12-Mount-Sunflower-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.7MB)Mt. McKinley.  Mt. Rainier.   Pikes Peak.  They are some of the tallest mountains in the United States.  But this…

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The Highest Point in Kansas

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/15Aug12-Mount-Sunflower-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.7MB)The Harold family has farmed and ranched along the Kansas-Colorado border for over a century.  Their homestead may appear to…

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The Kit Carson County Carousel

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/14Aug12-Carson-County-Carousel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.7MB)We appreciate the folks listening on KNAB in Burlington, Colorado who helped us with a story that’s nearly a century…

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A Bad Purchase?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/13Aug12-Carson-County-Carousel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.7MB)The general public usually wants its elected officials to be fiscally responsible.  But the purchase the commissioners in Kit Carson…

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The Squirrel Cage Jail

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/10Aug12-Squirrel-Cage-Jail-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Prisoners have used many different methods to escape from their cells.  A man in this jail crawled through pipes of…

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Like Hamsters in a Wheel

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/09Aug12-Squirrel-Cage-Jail-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.1MB)If you seem to be busy, but going nowhere in life, you might be said to be a “hamster in…

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