Category: American Countryside
Governor Gravesites in Missouri
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Missouri-Governor-Cemeteries.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Down dirt and gravel roads, off the main highway on paths once well traveled, but now forgotten, you can find…
The Dalton Gang
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/10Dec09-Dalton-Gang-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Today these streets and the adjacent alley are peaceful avenues lines with small town businesses. The fall of 1892, it…
A Hometown Holdup
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Dalton-Gang-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Bob, Emmit and Grat–three brothers that would return to their hometown to do business–but the business to be transacted would…
The Oklahoma Land Rush
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Cherokee-Strip-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Imagine a train chugging south out of Kansas with people jumping from the cars all along its route. The reason…
The Cherokee Strip
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Cherokee-Strip-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)It’s called the Cherokee Strip; a stretch of land in north central Oklahoma originally given to the Cherokee and later…
Oklahoma’s First Gusher
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Bartlesville-Oklahoma-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 960.2KB)George Keeler noticed his horses wouldn’t drink from this spot on the river. The location today is an important spot…
Black Gold in Oklahoma
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Bartlesville-Oklahoma-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 948.2KB)William Johnstone and George Keeler were looking for a way to attract the railroad to their new town. Who knew…
Getting to FFA Contest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Ralph-Dreesen.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)An FFA advisor was driving his students to a competition when the bus broke down with twenty eight students and…
Freeways to Fuel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Freeways-to-Fuel.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Dallas Hanks sees millions of easily accessible cropland in the United States that could be better utilized. In fact, we’re…
The Roots of the 4-H Clover
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/4-H-Clover-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)The 4-H Program is now over a century old and many people recognize the familiar green clover that symbolizes those…
A Chocolate Display
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Union-Station-Chocolate.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 1.9MB)For 90% of this agricultural product’s history, it was used as a drink. People certainly still drink it today, but…
The Rendezvous Theatre
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Rendevous-Theatre.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 947.6KB)When hunters and trappers would gather once each season, it was often called a rendezvous. In Alaska and the Yukon…
Food Fight!
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Food-Fight.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)If you began a food fight in school you could be headed to detention. If a farmer or rancher starts…
Catoctin Mountain Park (Part 2)
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Catoctin-Mountain-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 955.3KB)
Catoctin Mountain Park (Part 1)
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Catoctin-Mountain-Park-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 955.3KB)
Alaska’s Salmon
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Alaska-Riverboat-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)To many of us, salmon are just another type of fish we might eat. But to the people of Alaska,…
Alaskan Riverboats
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Alaska-Riverboat-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)When the city of Fairbanks swelled with the Klondike gold rush in the late 1800s, a fleet of riverboats began…
Alaska’s Riverboat Discovery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Alaska-Riverboat-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)When you think of a riverboat captain, you probably think of life on the Mississippi, Ohio or Missouri. Instead, we’ll…
An Alaskan Highway
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Jean-Richardson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:05 — 1.9MB)It’s a chore for most states to build and repair roads and bridges. Mary Carey fought with her state for…
North to Alaska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/11/Jean-Richardson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Jean Richardson’s mother had always dreamed of moving to Alaska and teaching school there. When she did move north, the…