Category: Minnesota
Hockeytown USA
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/09Oct25-Hockeytown-USA.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s known as “Hockeytown USA.” This small but mighty town has produced many top athletes and has competed at the…
Minnesota’s Northwest Angle
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/08Oct25-Minnesotas-Northwest-Angle.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The northernmost point in the lower 48 states was created when the maps of the era weren’t accurate in determining…
Living Well Past 100 Years Old
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/07Oct25-Warroad-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)These days it’s not that uncommon to find people who live to be 100 years old or more. In this…
Making the Trip to Warroad
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/06Oct25-Warroad-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In northern Minnesota you’ll find a town with an interesting name – Warroad. So was this truly a road to…
Bronco Nagurski
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/03Oct25-Bronco-Nagurski-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You know you probably had a special football career when your old high school adopted your name as its mascot. …
A Museum Honoring a Hometown Hero
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/02Oct25-Bronco-Nagurski-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was in the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s first class and his nine seasons with the Chicago Bears saw…
Voyageurs Gold Mining
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/01Oct25-Voyageurs-Gold-Mining.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of gold mining towns in the U.S., you probably don’t think of this area of the country. …
No Falls in International Falls, Minnesota
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/30Sep25-International-Falls-MN-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you go to International Falls, Minnesota looking for a picturesque waterfall, you’ll be disappointed. This is the story of…
The Nation’s Northern Border
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/29Sep25-International-Falls-MN-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When we think of rivers that form the border of the Unites States, we often think of the Rio Grande…
The Mystery of the Ruby Red Slippers
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/12Sep25-Judy-Garland-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One of the most visited exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution is the red slippers worn by Dorthy in the Wizard…
Known for One Role
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/11Sep25-Judy-Garland-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes celebrities in showbiz are known by one particular role they played, no matter the entirety of their life’s work. …
Frances Ethel Gumm
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/10Sep25-Judy-Garland-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Frances Ethel Gumm. You know her by a different name and I’m…
The Millie Lacs Trading Post
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/26Aug25-Mille-Lacs-Lake-Trading-Post-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The western frontier was noted to have many trading posts, but the one you’ll find here has over a century…
Following a Premonition to Move West
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/25Aug25-Mille-Lacs-Lake-Trading-Post-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the largest lakes in the state of Minnesota, and it became the place of settlement for a…
The Last Ship at Fort Snelling
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/11/11Nov24-Fort-Snelling-Last-Boat-Out.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the junction of two important rivers – the Mississippi and the Minnesota – and it made sense to have…
Fort Belmont
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/09Aug24-Fort-Belmont-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you drive Interstate 90 through Jackson, Minnesota you’ll see a fort near the freeway. Take the exit and explore…
A Community That Built Their Own Fort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/08Aug24-Fort-Belmont-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1850s and 1860s there had been skirmishes between Native Americans and settlers in the area of northern Iowa…
The Most Norwegian Place
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/17May24-The-Most-Norwegian-Place.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some towns are known for having a large number of ancestors from a specific country. That is the case for…
A Thank You to a Minnesota Officer from World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/16May24-Norwegian-WW-II-Battalion-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every May 8th, a wreath is laid on the grave of this Lt. Coronel at Arlington National Cemetery. It’s a…
Troops That Could Blend In
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/15May24-Norwegian-WW-II-Battalion-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When World War II began, the U.S. military began to recruit troops for special missions they believed might be necessarily…
