Category: American Countryside
The Famous American Revolutionary War Dentist
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/01Jul21-Paul-Revere-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He’s probably the most famous dentist in the American Revolutionary War. You might not know he cleaned teeth, but you…
The World’s Best Hot Dogs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/30Jun21-KC-Cattle-Company-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Patrick Montgomery had the world’s best hot dog, but he didn’t have enough them to sell to all those who…
Hot Dog Sales Through the Roof
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/29Jun21-KC-Cattle-Company-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Patrick Montgomery is in the business of delivering customers the best steaks they’ll ever eat. Along the way, he may…
From Army Ranger to Entrepreneur
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/28Jun21-KC-Cattle-Company-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Patrick Montgomery was an army ranger…and in 2014 he had a decision to make – reenlist or pursue another career…
Four Tons of Glass Negatives
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/25Jun21-Leavenworth-Historical-Society-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some of us remember the photo negatives you used to get when you processed film. But a century ago the…
First City of Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/24Jun21-Leavenworth-Historical-Society-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is the “First City of Kansas.” The reason it achieved that status was because of an important fort that…
A Gift for the Sultan’s Wives
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/23Jun21-CW-Park-Carousel-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A husband is supposed to give his bride a gift on her birthday, anniversary, Christmas…well, they should probably be giving…
Carousel Capitol of the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/22Jun21-CW-Park-Carousel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When most people think of this town they perhaps remember one of two things – a fort or a major…
CW Parker
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/21Jun21-CW-Park-Carousel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)CW Parker moved from Illinois to Kansas and his first career was hand digging wells. However, he began to take…
St. Paul’s Church
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/18Jun21-St-Pauls-Church-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Lutheran…there are many labels that may be placed on churches. However, during the early years of this…
A Symbol for the Struggle of Freedom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/17Jun21-St-Pauls-Church-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just outside of New York City proper, yet well within the urban corridor, there sits a church in the suburb…
Death Alley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/16Jun21-The-Dalton-Gang-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today these streets and the adjacent alley are peaceful avenues lines with small town businesses. The fall of 1892, it…
The Dalton Gang
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/15Jun21-The-Dalton-Gang-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Bob, Emmit and Grat…three brothers that returned to their hometown to do business…but the business to be transacted would cost…
The World’s Fifth Largest Airforce – And it Doesn’t Leave the Ground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/14Jun21-The-Boneyard-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the fifth largest air force in the world…but few of the planes here will fly…or even if they could,…
I Need Some Parts for my Fighter Jet
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/11Jun21-The-Boneyard-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you were looking for some used parts to repair your car, you might go to a scrapyard to find…
Don’t Paint My Tractor!
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/10Jun21-Hart-Parr-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Ask any farmer what is their favorite color on the farm and they most likely know you are asking them…
Coining “Tractor”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/09Jun21-Hart-Parr-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They were not the first to invent a tractor, but they were the first to call it that. And a…
The Soldier in the Field – Now in the Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/08Jun21-Soldier-in-the-Field-Monument-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Near the town square in Memphis, Missouri you’ll find a monument to a soldier who died in Word War I. …
Purnell Barnett’s Unique Marker
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/06/07Jun21-Soldier-in-the-Field-Monument-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)His name was Purnell Barnett. He died in World War I before he ever reached the battlefields of Europe. For…
The Story of Ella Ewing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/05/04Jun21-Ella-Ewing-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine getting paid $1000 per month just so people come and meet you. It was an unusual request – a…
