Category: Colorado
When a Way of Life Was Changed Forever
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/29May25-Meeker-Colorado-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the fall of 1879, an unfortunate set of events led to a clash between Native Americans and white settlers…
The Town of Meeker, Colorado
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/28May25-Meeker-Colorado-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In western Colorado you’ll find the town of Meeker. It’s the surname of a family sent here in the 1870s…
A Family From Five Points
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/11Apr25-Black-American-West-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If your family lived in the Five Points area of Denver, Colorado in the first half of the 20th century,…
Perception Isn’t Always Reality
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/10Apr25-Black-American-West-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is a cliché that says, “Perception is reality.” For Paul Stewart, his perception growing up was that young men…
The Impact on One Colorado Town
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/31Mar25-Steamboat-Springs-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A brick layer from Norway came to this country in the early 1900s. The impact he had in one Colorado…
Mineral Springs Unique from the Rest
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/28Mar25-Steamboat-Springs-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the first farmers and ranchers began to settle this part of north central Colorado, they found a mineral spring…
Breakfast in the Cemetery
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/27Mar25-Charley-Peterson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you happen to drive by the cemetery in Gypsum, Colorado on April 8th, you may find several people serving…
A Man Named Charley Peterson
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/26Mar25-Charley-Peterson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Near Gypsum, Colorado you can still find a small cabin that was the home of a farmer named Charley Peterson. …
Eagle County, Colorado’s Agriculture History
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/25Mar25-Eagle-County-Ag-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When mining didn’t pan out, many here turned to ranching and then to farming. And when it came to growing…
Fort Morgan, Colorado
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/28Oct24-Fort-Morgan-Colorado.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This area of northeastern Colorado has long been an important place for farming. The way it developed was a bit…
The Fort Morgan, Colorado Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/25Oct24-Fort-Morgan-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The initial route of the Oregon Trail followed the North Platte River, but over time, some decided to follow the…
The Julesburg, Colorado Dragstrip
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/24Oct24-Julesburg-Dragstrip.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Julesburg, Colorado you’ll find a small airstrip that has been in use for many decades. But this is much…
Julesburg, Colorado
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/23Oct24-Julesburg-Colorado-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of our towns have a namesake and that is the case for Julesburg, Colorado. But, the “Jules” in Julesburg…
An Important Point on Many Westward Trails
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/22Oct24-Julesburg-Colorado-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The town of Julesburg, Colorado has been an important point on many trails leading west. But it’s history is one…
Colorado Springs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/14Aug24-Colorado-Springs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we may rely on the latest advancements in science and medicine to help cure disease. Of course, in the…
James’ Peak
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/13Aug24-Pikes-Peak-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve perhaps never heard of James’ Peak. It’s more accurate to say you’ve heard of the mountain, but you simply…
A Discovered Peak
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/12Aug24-Pikes-Peak-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As Lewis and Clark headed west and north in 1803 to explore the newly acquire Louisiana Purchase, another explorer headed…
Comic Books of the Day
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/31Jul24-Kit-Carson-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Comic books tell the story of larger than life characters. In the mid 1800s, the comic books of the days…
Getting to Know Kit Carson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/30Jul24-Kit-Carson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes it’s not what you know but who you know. In Kit Carson’s case, it was both that made him…
Stories of Traveling West
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/29Jul24-Kit-Carson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This well-known frontiersman loved to hear the stories of those traveling west. One day, he decided it was time to…
