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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…
Wearing The Uniform
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/02Jul15-Tomb-Guard-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some jobs require you to wear a uniform. Imagine a job where that uniform had to be worn with perfection…where…
The World’s Greatest Athlete
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/02Jun15-Jim-Thorpe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In 1912, he was proclaimed “The World’s Greatest Athlete” and some of his Olympic records stood two decades later. He…
Living in Death Valley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/16Jun15-Death-Valley-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Very few people have attempted to live inside Death Valley National Park, but one that did built one of the…
The 20 Mule Team
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/15Jun15-Death-Valley-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some of you might remember 20 mule team borax and the old episodes of the Death Valley TV show. Today…
How Death Valley Earned Its Name
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/12Jun15-Death-Valley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Because Death Valley is such a difficult environment to support plant and animal life…most suppose that is how it earned…
A Place of Beauty and Danger
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/11Jun15-Death-Valley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On the border of California and Nevada you will find a place that has daunted countless travelers for the past…
Demonstrating a New Rifle at the White House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Jun15-Spencer-Rifle.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Imagine that you had developed a new type of rifle that could helpful to the US Military. How would you…
Bartering Is What Built the Place
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/01Jun15-Buckhorn-Saloon.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When people can’t pay cash for items they want, they may try to barter. That’s what this saloon did, and…
West of the Mississippi to Illinois
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/26May15-Kaskaskia-2015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today we head west of the Mississippi to the State of Illinois. Yes, west of the Mississippi to the State of…
