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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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A Strange, Damaged Police Car

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/06Feb23-Warren-Minnesota-UFO-Police-Car-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Warren, Minnesota you’ll find a 1970s vintage sheriff’s car on display.  What may be a bit unusual is that…

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Viewing a Car With an Unusual Story

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/05Feb23-Warren-Minnesota-UFO-Police-Car-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was late August of 1979 and there was a large, yet strange light near the rural intersection where a…

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The Father of the Army Jeep

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/02Feb23-Father-of-the-Army-Jeep.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Between the time of World War I and World War II, most armies moved away from the use of horses…

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A Red River Trail

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/01Feb23-Warren-Minnesota-Pimbina-Trail.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before highways crisscrossed this nation, trails linked remote communities to one another.  One such route connected today’s Manitoba, Canada with…

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Semi Loads of Hats

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/10Jan23-Minnesota-Hat-Collector-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every farmer needs a hat – and many farm supply companies provide them all the time.  But Scott’s dad enjoyed…

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Hats…Beyond Their Usual Purpose

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/09Jan23-Minnesota-Hat-Collector-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A farm hat is a necessity for many people- something to keep the sun out of your eyes or perhaps…

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A State with Two Flags

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/15Dec23-Fort-Snelling-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The state of Minnesota has a state flag, a flag flown above many sites in the state.  They also have…

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A Successful Stand Against Pickett’s Charge

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/14Dec23-Fort-Snelling-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Battle of Gettysburg is often referred to as the turning point of the Civil War, and within the battle…

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The First State to Volunteer for the Civil War

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/13Dec23-Fort-Snelling-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Ft. Sumter was fired upon in April of 1861, in signified the beginning of the U.S. Civil War.  Interestingly,…

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Where the Mississippi and Minnesota Meet

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/12Dec23-Fort-Snelling-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the place where the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers meet – a place that has been important for centuries of…

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Heisman Winner Bruce Smith

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/07Dec23-Heisman-Winner-Bruce-Smith-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)December 7th 1941.  It was a day of travel for this standout college football player, but as the events of…

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Celebrating Minnesota’s Only Heisman Winner

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/06Dec23-Heisman-Winner-Bruce-Smith-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KDHL in Faribault, MN.  Listeners there know there is one athlete that…

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The Lower Sioux Agency

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/23Oct23-Morton-Minnesota-Lower-Sioux-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Lower Sioux Agency.  You can still find a few of the historic buildings near Morton, Minnesota.  The…

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The Lower Sioux

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/20Oct23-Morton-Minnesota-Lower-Sioux-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As pioneers of Europeans decent moved westward, the once large spaces that many Native American nations once called home were…

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The Quack Museum

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/16Oct23-Quackery-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all heard that some things are just too good to be true.  That’s in a sense the theme to…

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