Category: Nebraska
Along the Niabrara River
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/28Aug25-Ainsworth-Nebraska-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is a unique and somewhat remote stretch of river one can float or canoe. For years ranchers knew of…
Setting Up a New High School
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/27Aug25-Ainsworth-Nebraska-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over a century ago, it was common to have one room school houses to educate rural children through the 8th…
Fort Hartsuff
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/14Aug25-Fort-Hartsuff-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Unless you live in central Nebraska or are perhaps a history buff of the 1870s, you’ve probably near heard of…
An Interesting Fort to Visit
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/13Aug25-Fort-Hartsuff-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just south of Burwell, Nebraska you’ll find a fort that is quite interesting to visit. While there were no major…
Fort Sidney, Nebraska
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/25Jul25-Fort-Sidney-Nebraska-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Life in this fort could be monotonous. Life outside this fort in the nearby town could get you killed. It’s…
Protecting the Rail Route
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/24Jul25-Fort-Sidney-Nebraska-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As rail lines were built west across Nebraska, there were sometimes conflicts between native Americans and those construction crews. The…
Home of the Tin Roof Sundae
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/23Jul25-Tin-Roof-Sundae-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)How many ice cream sundaes can a person dish up in one day? Perhaps there is a record somewhere, but…
The Notable Sundry in Potter, Nebraska
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/22Jul25-Tin-Roof-Sundae-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Along Interstate 80 in western Nebraska you’ll find the small town of Potter. Many people zip by the place on…
Learning Through Rodeo
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/18Mar25-Zach-Arend-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What can saddle bronc riding teach you about leadership, business and life? It turns out, quite a lot. This former…
Signing Up for Bull Riding
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/17Mar25-Zach-Arend-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most mothers would be worried about their teenage son riding a bull. This mother signed her son up to ride…
The Trial of Standing Bear
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/11Jun24-Standing-Bear-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At the time of his trial, Standing Bear did not have the right to take a matter to court. However,…
Trying to Bury His Son
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/10Jun24-Standing-Bear-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A father was simply trying to bury his teenage son. But a trip that would take them many miles to…
A Story Every American Should Know
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/07Jun24-Standing-Bear-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine working hard to build your farm and then having the government step in and take everything from you –…
Using a Thousand Dollar Bill to Pay
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/31Oct23-Glurs-Tavern-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One thousand dollar bills were last printed in 1945 and they were officially discontinued in 1969. You can still find…
The Storied History of Glur’s Tavern in Columbus, Nebraska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/30Oct23-Glurs-Tavern-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you drove past Glur’s Tavern in Columbus, Nebraska you might not give it a second thought. However, if you…
The Landmark Golf Course
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/05Sep23-Landmark-Golf-Course-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You won’t find a big sign for this place and you’ll travel down plenty of gravel roads to reach it…
Traveling Gravel Roads to Golf
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/04Sep23-Landmark-Golf-Course-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)“Landmand” is the Danish word for farmer and in northeast Nebraska you’ll find a place that recently opened with that…
A Piece of Ground that Stands Out
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/01Sep23-Landmark-Golf-Course-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Bryce Andersen’s family had a piece of ground that stood out, but for the wrong reasons. It was just too…
The Fastest Blackbird
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/26Jul23-SAC-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the largest and fastest blackbird you’ll ever see. But it’s just one of many intriguing items associated with America’s…
The Higgins Boat Memorial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/29May23-Higgins-Boat-Columbus-Nebraska.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every Memorial Day we remember our family and friends who have passed. Many communities will also remember their veterans and…
