Category: North Dakota
Searching for Ancient Creatures
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/05Sep24-Bowman-North-Dakota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us are intrigued by huge dinosaur fossils like T-Rex that are unearthed and displayed in museums. There’s just…
Dakota’s Sea of Grass
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/04Sep24-Bowman-North-Dakota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This part of North Dakota was once described as a sea of grass. That had many people driving their livestock…
Reaching Deep and Wide for Oil
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/23Jul24-Bakken-Oil-Fields-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s oil all around Tioga, North Dakota. For many years though, there just wasn’t a good way to reach it. …
The Oil Fields of Northwestern North Dakota
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/22Jul24-Bakken-Oil-Fields-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us know of the oil fields in northwestern North Dakota. However, we may not realize that the word…
Tioga, North Dakota
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/19Jul24-Tioga-North-Dakota.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Northeast of Williston, North Dakota you’ll find the town of Tioga. There is a story behind that name and it…
A Cow Named Salem Sue
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/26Jun24-Salem-Sue-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you didn’t know what to expect when driving west from Bismarck, North Dakota on Interstate 94, you might be…
Celebrating Their Town’s History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/25Jun24-Salem-Sue-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many small towns celebrate their heritage with a special festival or maybe other important sites throughout the town. New Salem,…
Turning an Old School Into Something
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/06Jun24-Enchanted-Highway-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Gary saw his old school close, he was sad to see such an important chapter in his life, seeming…
The Enchanted Highway
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/05Jun24-Enchanted-Highway-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Along a lonely stretch of interstate 94 between Bismarck and Dickinson, North Dakota, you’ll find a metal sculpture called Geese…
An Ongoing Story for Over Three Decades
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/04Jun24-Enchanted-Highway-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Turn south from Exit 72 on Interstate 94 in North Dakota and you’ll begin to encounter some very creative sites. …
An Important Part of Lewis & Clark’s Journey
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/21Nov23-Lewis-Clark-Fort-Mandan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is said that there are more statues in America of this lady than any other. Quite an accomplishment considering…
Lewis & Clark’s First Winter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/11/20Nov23-Lewis-Clark-Fort-Mandan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lewis and Clark spent two winters away from home on their trip to the Pacific Ocean…the first winter was cold…
An Aviation Pioneer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/30Aug23-Carl-Ben-Eielson-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Carl Ben Eielson hailed from Hatton, North Dakota. He was a pioneer in aviation and helped open the vast Alaskan…
Bringing the First Airplane to Alaska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/29Aug23-Carl-Ben-Eielson-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1920 a guy named Carl brought the first airplane to Fairbanks, Alaska. What took place from there would…
Carl Ben Eielson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/28Aug23-Carl-Ben-Eielson-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you live in the states of North Dakota or Alaska, you quite likely have heard of Carl Ben Eielson. …
Saving An Old Schoolhouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/03Jan23-Nome-Schoolhouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The schoolhouse in Nome, North Dakota saw its last students in 1970. The old building would have been demolished a…
The Story of a Farm-Based Business
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/02Jan23-Nome-Schoolhouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When your sales increase to the point you need to expand your business, that’s usually a good thing. That was…
Cattle Ranching President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/02Nov22-Theodore-Roosevelt-National-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Although his time here in North Dakota was not long if measured in numbers of days, the quality of that…
From the Badlands to the White House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/01Nov22-Theodore-Roosevelt-National-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)To date, no U.S. president has been born in North Dakota…but this commander-in-chief’s experiences there may be the reason he…
Meet the American Ninja Warrior
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/10Dec21-American-Ninja-Warrior-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We never give it a thought, but most of us perform our jobs with our feet on the ground. Even…
