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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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…

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…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/31Oct14-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…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/30Oct14-USS-Indianapolis-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was one of the worst disasters at sea in U.S. naval history.  The loss of life combined with the horrific…

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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/10Oct14-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 took…