Category: Arizona
The Wigwam Motel
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/19Nov24-Wigwam-Hotel.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you, your kids or even your grandkids have seen the movie Cars, then you probably remember the Cozy Cones. …
How the Ocean Affected Yuma
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/18Nov24-Yuma-Crossing-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George Strait once sang that he had some ocean front property in Arizona and if you’d buy that he’d throw…
A Ferry in the Middle of a Desert
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/15Nov24-Yuma-Crossing-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before bridges crossed rivers, communities often relied upon ferries to carry people and supplies. In some cases, those ferry operators…
The Wealth of the Desert in Yuma
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/14Nov24-Yuma-Crossing-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Yuma, Arizona is in the Sonoran dessert. The annual average rainfall is about three inches per year. So it is…
The Prescott Frontier Days Rodeo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/27Feb24-Prescott-Frontier-Days-Rodeo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you come to watch this rodeo, you’ll most likely be sitting in seats that were first used in 1913. …
The First Rodeo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/26Feb24-Prescott-Frontier-Days-Rodeo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Where was the first rodeo held? You’ll find some debate on the actual beginning point of the sport with several…
A Visit to Jerome, Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/20Feb24-Jerome-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many a mining boom town has experienced boom and bust. When this town was just about gone it began to…
One of the Largest Cities in the Arizona Territory
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/16Feb24-Jerome-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was once one of the largest cities in the Arizona Territory. Miners made there way to town to get…
Saving Your Son from Certain Death
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/21Apr23-Serge-Kreisberge-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a scene in which a boy is wrenched from a mother’s arms…and is headed for certain death. No doubt…
Chocolate & Potatoes, Again
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/20Apr23-Serge-Kreisberge-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A diet of chocolate and potatoes is probably not the most balanced ration one can eat…but during World War II…it…
Surviving the Holocaust
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/19Apr23-Serge-Kreisberge-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I occasionally like to go back to our show archives to hear stories that have moved me and many of…
One City, Many Occupiers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/18Apr23-Serge-Kreisberge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)His city bounced from one country’s control to another during World War II. No matter who was in control…this young…
Arizona Treasure Hunt
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/27Oct22-Jim-Greys-Petrified-Wood-Shop.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jim says he’s in the treasure hunting business. He’s looking for items that are worth tens of thousands of dollars…
Hi Jolly
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/18Oct22-Bullhead-City-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Quartzite, Arizona you can find the grave of Hi Jolly. It’s the Americanized name of a man responsible for…
The Army’s Camel Caravan
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/17Oct22-Bullhead-City-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)How do you move people and supplies across a desert? Well, the answer may depend on what desert you are…
Steamboats in the Desert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/14Oct22-Bullhead-City-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you picture steamboats, we may have images of stately paddle wheeled ships moving up and down the Mississippi River. …
In Search of Good Fences
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/13Oct22-Bullhead-City-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every rancher knows they need good fences to keep the herd from running wild on the neighbor’s property. In the…
Standin’ on a Corner
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/03Oct22-Winslow-Arizona.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This song hit number 12 on the billboard charts 50 years ago, and it’s popularity seems to keep growing. In…
The Daily, Six-Hour Bus Ride
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/29Aug22-Monument-Valley-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some students must ride a bus to school. But imagine a school district where a student might spend nearly six…
The Modern Day Medicine Man
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/26Aug22-Monument-Valley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have thought the use of Medicine Men was a thing of the past. Not here. In fact, this…
