Category: Kansas
Home on the Range
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/06Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The song, “Home of the Range,” turns 140 years old this year. It might not sound like a big deal, but…
A Poem Stuffed in a Book
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/05Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Brewster Higley didn’t think much about the poem he’d written. In fact, he stuffed it in a book and hadn’t looked…
A Man and His Cabin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/04Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the surface, the story doesn’t seem too different from other settlers stories of the late 1800s. A man from Indiana…
The Plane Crash Near Cottonwood Falls
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/04Mar14-Knute-Rockne-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)March 31, 1931 is a date still well remembered by those living around Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Although eye witnesses have…
The Fame of Knute Rockne
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/03Mar14-Knute-Rockne-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Knute Rockne coached Notre Dame to four national championships and a record of 105 wins, against only 12 losses and…
Council Grove
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/28Feb14-Council-Grove-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…
An Important Tree in the Mail System
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/27Feb14-Council-Grove-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…
A Small Grove of Trees
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/26Feb14-Council-Grove-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…
A Couple From Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/24Feb14-Obamas-Grandparents.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Dunhams were just another pair of Kansas high school graduates. They stayed in touch with classmates and tried to…
A Game of Basketball in the Rain
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/16Jan14-Basketball-History-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Football is a game played in the elements. Mud, rain, ice and snow may impact the game. Now imagine if…
The First Olympic Games with Basketball
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/15Jan14-Basketball-History-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)1936 was the first time the Olympics recognized the game of basketball as an official sport. In the U.S., AAU,…
The Globe Refiners
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/14Jan14-Basketball-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of basketball teams like the Lakers, Bulls and Celtics. But what about the Globe Refiners? Turn back the…
A Winter Sport for Young Men & Women
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/13Jan14-Basketball-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It all began as a way for young men and women to have a sport to play during the winter. …
A Deer in the Courthouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/10Jan14-Chase-County-Courthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A deer that runs loose inside the courthouse might cause a scene. Now imagine enraged residents chaining themselves to trees…
The County Seat of Chase County, Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/09Jan14-Chase-County-Courthouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Cottonwood Falls is the county seat of Chase County, Kansas. The town has just over 900 people, but don’t let…
The County Seat War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/06Dec13-Kansas-Oil-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)A county seat is an important place. It is after all the place were legal papers are stored, trials are…
Boom or Bust
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/05Dec13-Kansas-Oil-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.7MB)Oil, gas and minerals often bring towns periods of boom and bust. Each new discovery brings a swell of workers…
The Kansas Oil Boom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/04Dec13-Kansas-Oil-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.7MB)You may not think of this state as a top producing oil area. However, turn back the clock about a…
Kafir Corn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/26Sep13-El-Dorado-Kansas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)You’ve probably never heard of Kafir Corn. However, turn back the clock a century and you may have been hearing…
