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…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/29Oct14-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…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/10/28Oct14-USS-Indianapolis-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He grew up in the heart of the Midwest, but during world war II, his life at sea would become one…

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…

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

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/09/08Oct14-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 sneak…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/23Jul14-Pikes-Peak-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today we may rely on the latest advancements in science and medicine to help cure disease.  Of course, in the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/22Jul14-Pikes-Peak-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve perhaps never heard of James’ Peak.  It more accurate to say you’ve heard of the mountain, but you simply…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/21Jul14-Pikes-Peak-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 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/2014/07/16Jul14-Bents-Old-Fort-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was perhaps the most important stop on the entire length of the Santa Fe Trail. However, under two decades…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/15Jul14-Bents-Old-Fort-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today you can travel down just about any interstate highway in America and find plenty of truck stops. Now turn…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/14Jul14-Bents-Old-Fort-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of forts in the western U.S., you may remember military fortresses built to keep the peace and…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/30Oct13-Atomic-Clock-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 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/2013/10/29Oct13-Atomic-Clock-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)For most of human history, the movement of the sun, moon and planets has been used to measure time.  But…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/13Aug12-Carson-County-Carousel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28 — 1.7MB)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/2010/03/Budweiser-Clydesdales-20101.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 951.0KB)Irocnically, this well known team of horses was first assembled during the prohibition years. Today, they continue to be some…