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http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/10Aug16-Olympic-Basketball-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)What would the game of basketball be without the dunk?  You have some unlikely folks in central Kansas and one…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/09Aug16-Olympic-Basketball-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Today’s Olympic athletes may be able to devote many hours to training for their big event.  Eighty years ago, this…

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…

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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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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