Category: Kansas
The Life of Father Kapaun
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…
Carrying The Wounded – Caring For Souls
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…
Run to the Sound of the Battle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/16Jun23-Farther-Emil-Kapaun-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The army needs brave soldiers. In this battle, it seemed the bravest of them all was a man in the…
Pilsen, Kansas’ Skyline
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/15Jun23-Farther-Emil-Kapaun-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Drive to the small town of Pilsen, Kansas and there’s one building that dominates the skyline. It’s the steeple of…
The Most Watched Movie of All Time
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/08Jun23-Wizard-of-Oz-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1939 two major movies were released at the same time. One was “Gone with the Wind,” one of the…
Frank, the Great Storyteller
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/07Jun23-Wizard-of-Oz-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people can spin great stories. By all accounts, Frank was a great story teller, but his audience was just…
Wamego’s Famous Exhibition
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/06Jun23-Wizard-of-Oz-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Wamego, Kansas you’ll find the Columbian Theatre. It’s history is a story in its own right. However, the larger…
The Gamers Car
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/16Mar23-Midwest-Dream-Car-Collection-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes a car is known for it’s time period in history. That’s the case for this particular Nissan. If you’re…
The Mighty Power Wagon
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/15Mar23-Midwest-Dream-Car-Collection-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you have work to do in the field, you probably get a tractor to pull an implement to get…
Driving Your Car in the Lake…on Purpose
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/14Mar23-Midwest-Dream-Car-Collection-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us have a car. Some of us have a boat. What if wanted both but only had the…
Will the Delorean Hit 88 MPH?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/13Mar23-Midwest-Dream-Car-Collection-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you’ve ever seen one of the movies in the Back to the Future series, you know that Michael J…
The “Accidental” Car Collection
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/03/10Mar23-Midwest-Dream-Car-Collection-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Did you ever set out to purchase a car and wind up buying several by accident? I know, that’s probably…
Kidder Massacre
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/13Dec22-Kidder-Massacre.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today messages can be relayed to a military patrol within a split second. But in the 1860s, it took a…
The Goodland Flying Machine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/12Dec22-Goodland-Helicopter.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The first operational helicopters took flight in the 1930s. Widespread production of the aircraft didn’t occur for another decade…
The Cowboy War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/09Dec22-Leota-Cowboy-War-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was proclaimed the Cowboy War by national newspapers. It was truly a battle that required some of the biggest…
Fighting for the County Seat
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/08Dec22-Leota-Cowboy-War-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I’ve heard several stories over the years about towns fighting to be proclaimed the county seat in the early years…
He once was just, “Bill”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/21Nov22-Buffalo-Bill-Oakly-Kansas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before he was known as Buffalo Bill, he was simply William Cody. We all assume he must have some connection…
Orphan Train Complex – Concordia, KS
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/19Aug22-Orphan-Train-Complex-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine being an orphan boarding a train on the East Coast, not knowing where your next home might be. That…
The Orphan Train
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/18Aug22-Orphan-Train-Complex-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a restored rail depot building in Concordia, Kansas you can find an intriguing story of nearly a quarter million…
Turkey Red & the Liberty Bell
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/26Jul22-Mennonite-Heritage-Center-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you’ve seen the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. But have you see the Liberty Bell in Goessel, Kansas? The version…
