http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/20Sep24-Scott-City-Pueblo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Near Kansas’ border with Colorado you can find a place called El Cuartelejo.  It’s the ruins of an ancient home…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/19Sep24-Scott-City-Pueblo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In western Kansas you can find the foundations for an old Native American settlement.  Perhaps that doesn’t seem too out…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/18Sep24-Monument-Rocks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the natural wonders of Kansas.  A place of white spires rising from the prairie plains that have…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/04Apr24-Mitchell-Farms-Movie-Theatres-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Kenny Mitchell was dating his wife-to-be, they enjoyed going to the local movie theater.  He probably never imagined how…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/03Apr24-Mitchell-Farms-Movie-Theatres-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When this farm decided to diversify they didn’t do it by growing a different crop or buying livestock.  They instead…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/05Mar24-Council-Grove-Kansas-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today if you need parts for your car or truck, you might just head to an auto repair store.  Turn…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/04Mar24-Council-Grove-Kansas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before express mail or overnight delivery, messages traveled at a speed measured not in hours, but in weeks.  For those…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/01Mar24-Council-Grove-Kansas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The hardwood trees along the Neosho River had been growing here for years.  In fact, many of those old trees…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/06Oct23-Kafir-Corn-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve probably never heard of Kafir Corn.  However, turn back the clock a century and you may have been hearing…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/05Oct23-Kafir-Corn-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The first settlers to this region began to farm the land, but drought and grasshoppers made life miserable for most. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/04Oct23-Coranodo-Quivera-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The early trails that moved settlers from east to west often charted courses that helped reduce the number of obstacles…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/03Oct23-Coranodo-Quivera-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are a Spanish explorer searching the New World for gold, the place you’d come look of course would…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/02Oct23-Coranodo-Quivera-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The area around Lyons, Kansas in the central part of the Sunflower State may appear to be sparsely populated by…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/18Jul23-Fort-Wallace-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Presidents receive all kinds of gifts.  One young resident of Sharon Springs, KS was so excited to see President Teddy…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/17Jul23-Fort-Wallace-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Doctors may be called upon to help people in all kinds of situations, but the request in Wallace, KS was…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/14Jul23-Fort-Wallace-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Conflicts between Native Americans and westward moving settlers took place around Ft. Wallace, in western Kansas, during the years around…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/13Jul23-Fort-Wallace-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today it is a small town in an area where towns are few and far between.  Yet it is a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/10Jul23-Canton-Kansas-Water-Towers.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just about every town has a water tower.  Canton, Kansas has not one, but two such towers, similar in size…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/20Jun23-Farther-Emil-Kapaun-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Pilsen, Kansas is probably not on your way to most places you need to get.  Yet many people go out…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/19Jun23-Farther-Emil-Kapaun-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If someone needs help, we might say that others figuratively carried them to where they needed to be.  In this…