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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/18May18-Atomic-Clock-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For most of human history…the movement of the sun, moon and planets has been used to measure time.  But even…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/17May18-Atomic-Clock-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s the most accurate clock on earth…and it doesn’t even have hands to tell the time.  It’s an unusual but…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/20Apr18-Prohibition-Party-2018-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You may have thought this political party died when this became legal again back in the 1930s.  You’ll be intrigued…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/31Aug15-Jack-Dempsey-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)We all had people we idolized as youngsters. Perhaps they were movie or sports stars.  Maybe you even got to…