Category: Colorado
What You Know and Who You Know
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…
A Well Known Frontiersman
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…
The Best Climate to Help Ease An Ailment
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…
James’ Peak
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…
A Landmark With a Name
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…
A Landmark Burned to the Ground
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…
800 Miles and One Stop
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…
An Enterprising Fort
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…
The Cyle of a Cesium Atom
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. …
The Most Accurate of Clocks
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…
A Bad Purchase?
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…
The Budweiser Clydesdales
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…
