Category: Best of
When Life Throws You Lemons
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/08Feb19-Spencer-Citrus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When life throws you a lemon, you make lemonade. Mark certainly has plenty of lemons…but he doesn’t have to make…
A Citrus Packer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/07Feb19-Spencer-Citrus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)You’ve probably bought their fruit and not even realized it. This is a family owned citurs packer that grows, packs,…
Daniel Boone Working For Another Country
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/01Feb19-St-Louis-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Daniel Boone is one of the most famous American frontiersman. But when he crossed the Mississippi River, he went to…
One of the Oldest Cities on the Mississippi
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/31Jan19-St-Louis-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the oldest and largest cities on the Mississippi River…and although some may have heard of names like…
A Battle in Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/14Jan19-John-Brown-Osawatamie-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)The shots at Ft. Sumter in April of 1861 are often considered the first military action of the Civil War. …
John Brown: The Early Years
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/11Jan19-John-Brown-Osawatamie-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the years just ahead of the Civil War, thousands of people came to Kansas ahead of a critical vote…
Fort Bridger
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/07Jan19-Fort-Bridger-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This fort serviced the Pony Express, the Oregon Trail, and was around so long it even slept travelers by car. …
New Ownership of a Fort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/04Jan19-Fort-Bridger-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You usually don’t think of a fort coming under new ownership. But that’s what happened to this site that bears…
One of the Best Known Mountain Men of the 1800s
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/03Jan19-Fort-Bridger-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was one of the best known mountain men of the early 19th century. A man who was skilled in…
Remembering Fred Mares
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/02Jan19-Remembering-Fred-Mares.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Image a man who speaks over ten languages, can play multiple musical instruments and serenade customers with his wonderful voice. …
Best of 2018: The Hartsdale Pet Cemetary
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/01Jan19-Best-of-2018-Hartsdale-Pet-Cemetary.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Ed Martin Jr. has helped bury dogs, cats, birds, guinea pigs and he’s even heard of a lion cub on…
Best of 2018: Dan Meers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/31Dec18-Best-of-2018-Dan-Meers-KC-Wolf.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Dan Meers has nearly a dozen suits he wears to work. The odd thing is, all the suites are alike. …
Best of 2018: Wall Drug
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/28Dec18-Best-of-2018-Wall-Drug.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What’s the first thing a father teaches his son about being a good businessman? How to make donuts of course! …
Best of 2018: Todd Syrup Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/27Dec18-Best-of-2018-Todd-Syrup-Farm.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Lots of people enjoy pure maple syrup. But if you ask this farmer what he thinks of it, well you’ll…
Best of 2018: Billy the Kid
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/26Dec18-Best-of-2018-Billy-the-Kid.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When two different cities, in two different states claim to have the body of the same man, well, you know…
The Holiday Christmas Store
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/25Dec18-Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. It’s big business in…
Twas the Night
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/24Dec18-Twas-the-Night-Before.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)We know the words of “’twas the night before Christmas;” words that helped solidify the image of Santa over 200…
The Scene of a Winter Battle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/21Dec18-Stones-River-National-Battlefield-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB)The Union army was defeated at Fredricksburg, Virginia in mid December 1862. President Lincoln needed a victory to bolster the…
Dinosaur National Monument
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/12/10Dec18-Dinosaur-National-Monument-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Perhaps we’ve seen a dinosaur skeleton on display at a museum. This stretch of land in eastern Utah might well…
Pinpointing the Location of Bones
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/07Dec18-Dinosaur-National-Monument-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We’ve all lost something and then spent lots of time looking where we placed it. You could say that was…