http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/26Sep24-James-Banning-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today there are many flights each day that connect the two coasts of this nation.  In the early years of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/25Sep24-James-Banning-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today is a person want to learn to fly a plane, there are many options of places you can go…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/24Sep24-Iowa-State-Jack-Trice-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I have long known that the Iowa State Cyclones football team plays at Jack Trice stadium.  Those not from nearby…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/23Sep24-Iowa-State-Jack-Trice-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1923 what is today Iowa State University played a football game at the University of Minnesota.  In part, due…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/20Sep24-Scott-City-Pueblo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Near Kansas’ border with Colorado you can find a place called El Cuartelejo.  It’s the ruins of an ancient home…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/19Sep24-Scott-City-Pueblo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In western Kansas you can find the foundations for an old Native American settlement.  Perhaps that doesn’t seem too out…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/18Sep24-Monument-Rocks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the natural wonders of Kansas.  A place of white spires rising from the prairie plains that have…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/17Sep24-Earthquake-Lake.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We may think of big earthquakes in the U.S. being an event that normally occurs on the west coast.  In…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/16Sep24-West-Yellowstone.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the coldest and snowiest towns in U.S.  In fact, it’s not uncommon for this community to have…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/13Sep24-Fort-Morgan-Alabama-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you vaguely remember from your history books the words of a ship captain in war exclaiming, “Damn the torpedoes,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/12Sep24-Fort-Morgan-Alabama-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today most people venture to this spot along the Gulf Coast for its scenic beauty.  Turn back the clock a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/11Sep24-St-Genevieve-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all seen a log cabin.  Such structures were the norm for many Americans early in the country’s history.  But…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/10Sep24-St-Genevieve-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When these French Catholics learned that the British Protestants had taken over, they weren’t pleased.  It may be the reason…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/09Sep24-John-Deere.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Although you may associate his name with tractors…he never saw one…yet his name is synonymous with the equipment used in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/06Sep24-Cyrus-McCormick-Reaper.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A couple of centuries ago crops were cut and threshed by hand…but that all changed with a young farmer in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/05Sep24-Bowman-North-Dakota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us are intrigued by huge dinosaur fossils like T-Rex that are unearthed and displayed in museums.  There’s just…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/04Sep24-Bowman-North-Dakota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This part of North Dakota was once described as a sea of grass.  That had many people driving their livestock…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/03Sep24-Hay-Trolley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One of the hardest jobs on the farm in the 19th and early 20th centuries was putting up hay.  You…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/02Sep24-Hay-Trolley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over the years we have torn down some old bards on our property.  One of the items that went in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/30Aug24-California-Trail-Center-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Pioneers that headed west on overland trails saw many sites.  Interestingly one that many wrote about was an elephant.  You…