Category: Colorado
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. …
Measuring Time
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…
The Most Accurate Clock on Earth
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…
Before Got Milk–The Evil Beverage
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/23Apr18-Prohibition-Party-2018-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Before there was a Got Milk slogan…some dairymen used an amendment to the constitution to help keep their product ahead…
Political Party History
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…
Meet A Childhood Idol
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…
The Heavyweight Boxing Champ
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/28Aug15-Jack-Dempsey-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When Jack Dempsey held the heavyweight boxing title, he had to defend his belt against the world’s top fighters…and one…
Don’t Call Him a Big Baby
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/27Aug15-Jack-Dempsey-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you called someone a “big baby” you would probably insult them as a whining coward. Jack WAS a big…
Good Fences
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/21Aug15-Bullhead-City.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Every rancher knows they need good fences to keep the herd from running wild on the neighbor’s property. In the…
A Record Setting Bridge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/17Aug15-Royal-Gorge-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)For over seven decades, this bridge was a record setter, the highest suspension bridge in the world. It continues to…
Natural Beauty Stumbled Upon By Accident
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/14Aug15-Royal-Gorge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Thousands of people still drive to this location to be amazed by the natural beauty of this place. It makes…
Check In and Watch a Movie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/04Aug15-Movie-Manor-Motel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When you check into this hotel, you’ll find the name of a movie star on your door. In fact, you…
Falling Asleep Watching a Movie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Aug15-Movie-Manor-Motel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Many folks have fallen asleep on their couch while watching a movie. In the case of one man in Monte…
The Sand Creek Masacre
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/03Dec14-Sand-Creek-Masacre-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s been 150 years since a massacre on the high plains angered a nation. The subsequent military investigations showed that…
A Sad Chapter in American History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/02Dec14-Sand-Creek-Masacre-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)While U.S. troops fought Confederate forces in the eastern half of the country, troops on the high plains were concerned…
High Tensions Far From War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/01Dec14-Sand-Creek-Masacre-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of the battles during the Civil War were fought east of the Mississippi River. However, today we take you…