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Trying to Prevent a Bank Robbery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/10/02Nov15-Northfield-Jesse-James.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You probably have not heard of a man named Joseph Lee Haywood. He died on September 7th, 1876 trying to…
Remembering Grandma Saunders
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/19Oct15-Grandma-Saunders.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)My grandmother Darlene Saunders passed last week and today I’ll be a pall bearer at her funeral. So today I…
The Spanish Treasure Cave
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/13Oct15-Spanish-Treasure-Cave.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)In the years following Columbus’ voyage to the new world, other Europeans followed, some with ideas of conquering native American…
Camp Floyd
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/02Oct15-Camp-Floyd.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 2.0MB)For three years, 3500 soldiers served alongside one another in Utah Territory. It was the largest military outpost in the…
The Only Remaining Packard Showroom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/09/01Oct15-Packard-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Name your favorite brand of car and you can probably find a dealership within a reasonable distance of your home. …
The Luxury Car of the 20th Century
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/30Sep15-Packard-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 2.0MB)It was the luxury car of the first half of the 20th century. Today the company is gone, but the…
Positioning A Product
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/29Sep15-Cherry-Farmer-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:56 — 2.0MB)Many Americans are growing more concerned about their health and diet. That means this farmer has to put some thought…
A Crop Nearly Everyone Enjoys
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/28Sep15-Cherry-Farmer-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 2.0MB)Ben LaCrosse grows a crop just about everyone enjoys. However, it’s a crop that is difficult to harvest and one…
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…
The Story of Hi Jolly
In Quartzite, Arizona you can find the grave of Hi Jolly. It’s the Americanized name of a man responsible for transporting many of the supplies…
Moving Supplies in the Desert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/25Aug15-Camel-Caravan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)How do you move people and supplies across a desert? Well, the answer may depend on what desert you are…
Boats Cruising the Middle of a Desert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/24Aug15-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….
Tunneling In a Prison Camp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/31Jul15-Ed-Davidson-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most prison camps wouldn’t want their detainees digging tunnels to freedom. But at Ed’s camp, it was a way to…
Learning Things About Yourself You Never Knew
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/30Jul15-Ed-Davidson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Ed believed he was a well informed pilot flying for the United States. Then the German captured him and told…
Crossing the Atlantic for World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/29Jul15-Ed-Davidson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Ed Davidson got to cross the Atlantic on the Queen Mary…but his trip wasn’t for pleasure, for he made that…
Misery Among Beauty
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/21Jul15-Alcatraz-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This island has some of the best views of San Francisco Bay and the city itself…yet most people didn’t want…
The Story of One Very Famous Rock
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/20Jul15-Alcatraz-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)At one time it was one of the nation’s most important forts…but that’s not how people would know it today…
Not the Man For His Daughter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/17Jul15-JFK-Birthplace-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)There was no doubt in Fitz’s mind that Joe was not the man for his daughter. The story of what…
What Looks Like Another Street in Suburban Boston
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/16Jul15-JFK-Birthplace-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Beals Street looks to be just another street in suburban Boston. But one house here is special, as it’s a…
A Reminder of the Cost of Freedom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Jul15-Tomb-Guard-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every independence day we celebrate our freedom. This soldier is reminded of the cost of that freedom…as he protects the…
