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A Town Named Young

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/04Sep15-Young-Arizona.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)It’s just a small town of about 500 people. You’ve driven through bunches of them. But you probably have not…

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Owning A Gold & Silver Mine

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Sep15-Good-Enough-Mine-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Not many people set out to own a historic gold and silver mine.  That was the case for Andre, but…

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The Good Enough Mine

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/02Sep15-Good-Enough-Mine-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)When the first miners hit veins of ore here, they knew it was “good enough” to open a profitable mine. …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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