Category: Arizona
What Once Was Called Goose Flats
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/01Sep15-Good-Enough-Mine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Not many folks have heard of Goose Flats, Arizona. After all, the most exciting thing in Goose Flats was the…
A Long Bus Ride
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Aug15-Monument-Valley-Bussing.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some students must ride a bus to school. But imagine a school district where a student might spend nearly six…
Walk the Streets of a Fictional Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Jun15-Old-Tuscon-Studios-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many movie greats have walked the streets of this fictional town, and you can too. It’s a story that has…
Building Homes and Movie Stars
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/0Jun15-Old-Tuscon-Studios-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s tough to find someone skilled in building an adobe home. So this movie studio called on some experts who…
A Town Built for Hollywood
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/08Jun15-Old-Tuscon-Studios-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It the early days of movies, most were shot on lots in Hollywood, but one of the first ventures outside…
A Boom Town Called Tombstone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/05Jun15-Tombstone-Courthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the 1880’s, stagecoaches brought dozens of people each day to a boom town called Tombstone. But it was a…
Dig Your Grave When You Get There
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/04Jun15-Tombstone-Courthouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When this man set out to find his fortune he was told he’d need to dig his grave when he…
Coronado’s Exploration
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/13May15-Coronado-National-Monument.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s been nearly half a millennium since Coronado’s exploration party marched through what is today’s Arizona. We head to a…
Inside A Titan II Missle Silo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/01Apr15-Titan-Missle-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In the 1980s there were 54 Titan II missile silos across the U.S. Those missile carried the largest land-based nuclear…
Standing Alert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/31March15-Titan-Missle-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)They were some of the largest and most devastating weapons ever developed and today we visit with a lady who…
An Interview Underground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/30Mar15-Titan-Missle-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Over the year’s we’ve done some of our interviews underground. That’s the case for today’s feature…situated on “level seven” of…
San Marcos Resort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/03/27Mar15-San-Marcos-Resort.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.7MB) Phoenix, Arizona has plenty of golf resorts that attract thousands of visitors, but ask someone who established the first…
Stone Spires Rising Into the Sky
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/05Mar15-Tombstone-Arizona-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a place of amazing natural beauty, with stone spires rising high into the sky. It’s also a place of…
A Place of Respect
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/05Mar15-Tombstone-Arizona-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many would consider this cemetery to be a tourist attraction. Yet it doesn’t charge admission and is a place of…
A Place Called Boot Hill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Mar15-Tombstone-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)There are several cemeteries in the west called “Boot Hill.” That’s because many of the dead died with their boots…
A Cemetery With Different Markers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/04Mar15-Tombstone-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Most cemeteries have markers with a person’s name, date of birth and death, and little else. Not so for many…
A Trip to Joe & Aggie’s Cafe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/25Nov14-Joe-Aggies-Cafe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we’re at Joe & Aggie’s café, a restaurant that’s been serving up great meals for over 70 years now…
The Wigwam Hotel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/24Nov14-Wigwam-Hotel.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you, your kids or even your grand kids have seen the movie Cars, then you probably remember the Cozy…
Oceanfront Property in Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/07Nov14-Yuma-Arizona-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)George Strait once sang that he had some oceanfront property in Arizona and if you’d buy that he’d throw the…
A Bridge in the Desert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/06Nov14-Yuma-Arizona-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…
