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Getting Your Name Out In Public

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/08Aug16-Olympic-Basketball-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Businesses may use a variety of ways to get their name out to the public.  In the first half of…

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Offering a Blank Check for a Cabin

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/05May16-Home-on-the-Range-Cabin-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a place so important, the owners were once offered a blank check if they would sell.  It’s a story…

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President Roosevelt’s Favorite Song – Why it Matters!

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/04May16-Home-on-the-Range-Cabin-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the best known songs of that past century.  In fact, one president said it was his favorite. …

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My Western Home – A Poem You Know!

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/03May16-Home-on-the-Range-Cabin-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may not fancy yourself a poet, and you may have forgotten a poem called My Western Home.  But in…

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The Most Dangerous Route the Mail Ever Took

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/02May16-Dalles-Oregon-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s said to be the most dangerous route a postman ever took.  In fact, the route was eventually removed from…

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Peace Treaty Pageant

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/26Jan16-Medicine-Lodge-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A three-day event dedicated to an old peace treaty may sound a bit odd.  However, this town’s event draws thousands…

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The Foiled Medicine Lodge Bank Robbery

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/25Jan16-Medicine-Lodge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB)About as long as there have been banks, there have been bank robberies.  The one that took place in Medicine…

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Carry Nation’s Hatchet Job

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/20Jan16-Carry-Nation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This lady was known to back up her words with her hatchet.  And that hatchet is still well known over…

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Carry Nation’s Crusade

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/19Jan16-Carry-Nation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB)If you attended David Nation’s church in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, many would say the real sermon began when David’s wife…

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Medicine Lodge History

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/12/18Jan16-Medicine-Lodge-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In south central Kansas you’ll find a place long important to Native Americans – a place where they and later…

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A Famous Tunnel

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/08Oct15-Dalton-Gang-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is a very famous tunnel running beneath the surface of a barnyard in Meade, Kansas.  It was built in…

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The Other Dalton Children

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/07Oct15-Dalton-Gang-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)The infamous Dalton Gang robbed individuals and businesses in the Midwest during the early 1890s.  But not all of the…

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Remembering Flight 599 on the Kansas Prairie

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/20Aug15-Knute-Rockne-Memorial-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was perhaps an unlikely tour guide and an even more unlikely person to be recognized by cheering crowds and…

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The Knute Rockne Tragedy

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/19Aug15-Knute-Rockne-Memorial-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s been over eighty years since Knute Rockne walked the football sidelines at Notre Dame.  However, phrases like “Win one…

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Crash in the Flint Hills

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/18Aug15-Knute-Rockne-Memorial-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was an unlikely spot for a national story – the Flint Hills of Kansas in the early 1930s.  A…

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Raising $4 Million In a County With Only 3 Thousand People

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/07Aug15-Cottonwood-Falls-Courthouse-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A county of only about three thousand people was tasked with a major challenge.  They needed to raise about $4…

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A $40,000 Architectural Masterpiece

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/05Aug15-Cottonwood-Falls-Courthouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It only cost $40,000 to build this architectural masterpiece.  Of course, that was about 150 years ago, but the small…

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A Building Beautiful Inside and Out

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/06Aug15-Cottonwood-Falls-Courthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I’ve seen many courthouses in my journeys, but this one has to be one of the most amazing.  Beautiful inside…

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Napoleon’s Link to Concordia, Kansas

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/28Jul15-Concordia-Brown-Grand-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Most of us recognize the name Napoleon Bonaparte as that of a famous French general. But for the residents of…

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An Opera House In Rural America

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/27Jul15-Concordia-Brown-Grand-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today you don’t see many opera stars performing in rural America. But a century ago, the name on many buildings…

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