Category: Montana
A 150 Year Old Donut
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/20Feb25-150-Year-Old-Donut.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a donut in Montana, that while very interesting, is not a donut anyone probably wants to consume. That’s because…
Fort Kehough
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/19Feb25-Fort-Keough.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Miles City, Montana is a hub for the ranch lands of the southeastern part of the state. Part of its…
Range Riders Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/18Feb25-Range-Riders-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1930s a group of cowboys in southeastern Montana wanted to preserve the ranch history they saw slowly vanishing. …
Nevada City, Montana
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/02/17Feb25-Nevada-City-Montana-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What would a jukebox from the 1800s look like? A trip to this old Montana town will give you a…
Preserving History in Montana
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/14Feb25-Nevada-City-Montana-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people like to preserve a piece of the past. What this family did here was preserve an entire town…
A Montana Gold Mining Town
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/13Feb25-Nevada-City-Montana-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just northwest of Yellowstone National Park you’ll find some old mining towns with quite a story. When gold was found…
Earthquake Lake
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/17Sep24-Earthquake-Lake.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We may think of big earthquakes in the U.S. being an event that normally occurs on the west coast. In…
West Yellowstone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/16Sep24-West-Yellowstone.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the coldest and snowiest towns in U.S. In fact, it’s not uncommon for this community to have…
Wolf Point
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/05Aug24-Wolf-Point-Montana.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It just stands to reason that a place named Wolf Point must have something to do with wolves somewhere in…
With or Without
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/02Aug24-With-or-Without.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes just a few words can reveal the place from which you hail, even when you don’t mention the actual…
The Wildhorse Stampede Rodeo
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/01Aug24-Wild-Horse-Stampede-Rodeo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In northeastern Montana you’ll find a rodeo that is over 100 years old. With that kind of track record, you…
The Treasure in the Back of the Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/28May24-Glasgow-Treasure-in-the-Back-of-the-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over many years of travels I’ve found that the back of a museum can hold many unexpected treasures. You just…
A Point On the Globe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/24May24-Glasgow-A-Point-On-the-Globe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The state of Montana is a long way from Scotland. However a trip to this town will perhaps make you…
A Native American Teepee
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/23May24-Glasgow-Native-American-Teepee.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people associate Native American tribes from the Plains with a teepee. That may be an accurate description but depends…
Ismay, Montana and a Hall of Fame Quarterback
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/22May24-Ismay-Joe-Montana-2-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ll need to drive on six miles of gravel roads from the highway to get to the tiny town of…
Changing the Name of a Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/21May24-Ismay-Joe-Montana-1-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Would you ever consider changing your name? What if someone was offering you a prize to change it to a…
The Backcountry Horsemen
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/29Sep23-Columbia-Falls-Montana-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are called the Back Country Horseman. Their work is something that may have impacted you and you never realized…
Packing Explosives to Open the Trail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/28Sep23-Columbia-Falls-Montana-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Placing explosives on the backs of mules sounds like an unusual job, but it was just part of the work…
The Outhouse on Top of the Mule
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/27Sep23-Columbia-Falls-Montana-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all seen old time pictures of mule trains packing supplies to some remote location. However, Stu Sorenson will tell…
Lodges of Glacier
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/26Sep23-Glacier-National-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We recently did some shows from the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park. Also impressive is another park lodge…this…
