Category: Colorado
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…
Promoting Milk Before “Got Milk?”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/11Dec23-Prohibition-Party-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before there was a Got Milk slogan, some dairymen used an amendment to the constitution to help keep their product…
A Political Party That Survives Today
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/08Dec23-Prohibition-Party-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have thought this political party died when this became legal again back in the 1930s. You’ll be intrigued…
Rescue at Sea
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/01Dec22-USS-Indianapolis-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Japan surrendered to the U.S, Americans rejoiced to know that the conflict was coming to an end. Buried in…
The Story of Survival – USS Indianapolis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/30Nov22-USS-Indianapolis-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve shared many stories of veterans on this show over the years. All are important stories, yet this one stands…
Top Secret Cargo Destined for Japan
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/29Nov22-USS-Indianapolis-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As August of 1945 neared, one ship took a top secret cargo across the Pacific. But for the men of…
The Remarkable Service of Paul Murphy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/28Nov22-USS-Indianapolis-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He grew up in the heart of the Midwest but during world war II his life at sea would become…
Tracking Down a Stolen Masterpiece
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/12Aug22-Kit-City-Carousel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We appreciate the folks listening on KNAB in Burlington, Colorado who helped us with a story that’s nearly a century…
An Over The Top Purchase
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/11Aug22-Kit-Carson-Carousel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The general public usually wants its elected officials to be fiscally responsible. But the purchase the commissioners in Kit Carson…
The Importance of a Cesium Atom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/21May18-Atomic-Clock-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If I said I’d be back in a second…I’d literally be back in 9,192, 631,770 cycles of a cesium atom. …
