Category: Nevada
Flying a World Record Endurance
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/26Jan12-Las-Vegas-Endurance-Plane-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)If you’ve ever flown into the Las Vegas airport, you may have noticed a colorful Cessna airplane hanging from the…
The 24 Hour Las Vegas Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/25Jan12-Las-Vegas-Endurance-Plane-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)You may recall we recently discussed a pair of brothers in Mississippi who in 1935 set a record by keeping…
Protestors and Nuclear Testing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/Nevada-Test-Site-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Our nation’s Bill of Rights guarantees its citizens freedom of speech and the right to assemble. When you are director…
Nuclear Weapons Testing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/Nevada-Test-Site-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)From the 1950s to 1992, this area north of Las Vegas was where the U.S. conducted most of its nuclear…
Drilling Holes in the Ground
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Nevada-Test-Site-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Drilling a hole in the ground may not sound too important. However at this site, much of today’s drilling technology…
Promoting Las Vegas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Las-Vegas-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Most cities would not promote nuclear tests and fishing at lakes void of fish. But that’s what this place did,…
The City Known for Its Water?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/11/Las-Vegas-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)When this city got its start, it was known for its water. Its safe to say, few know it for…
Death Valley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Death-Valley-2011-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Because Death Valley is such a difficult environment to support plant and animal life, most suppose that is how it…
Crossing the Nation’s Hottest Valley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Death-Valley-2011-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)On the border of California and Nevada you will find a place that has daunted countless travelers for the past…
Four Decades Work of the Cold War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Nevada-Test-Site-2-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.1KB)During Troy Wade’s four decades at the Nevada Test Site, he went from designing weapons to stop the Russians to…
The Nevada Test Site
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Nevada-Test-Site-1-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 955.1KB)Deep under the earth just northwest of Las Vegas, Troy Wade worked to win the cold war…
The Golden Nugget Casino
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/Golden-Nugget-Casino.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.3KB)Ask someone to name a casino in Vegas and they can rattle off names like the Belagio, Stratospher, MGM and…
