Category: North Dakota
The Jamestown Courthouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/05Mar19-Jamestown-ND-Courthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In Jamestown, North Dakota you will find a grand old courthouse that was an important part of the statehood process. …
How Bismarck Became Capital of North Dakota
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/04Mar19-Jamestown-ND-Courthouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)How did Bismarck become the capital of North Dakota? Someone made sure the committee making the decision didn’t get to…
A Lifetime Opportunity
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/12Feb09-Bagg-Bonanza-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was quite an opportunity – manage a farm for two decades and then be given nearly 10,000 acres of…
Bonanza Farms
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/11Feb09-Bagg-Bonanza-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They were some of the largest farms on the continent. Called bonanza farms, they stretched for thousand of acres and…
Talking About Someone Famous For a Living
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/30Nov18-Jack-Stahlman-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Did you ever meet someone famous and then tell everyone about your encounter? That’s in a sense what Jack does…
Making It on the Screen
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/29Nov18-Jack-Stahlman-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)How to you become a well known actor in Hollywood? Well, that’s what Jack had to figure out, but it…
The Big Break
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/28Nov18-Jack-Stahlman-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Sometime you just need a break, a stroke of luck, the ball to bounce your way. Jack Stahlman got it. …
A Premiere Zoo in Rural America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/19Oct18-Wahpeton-North-Dakota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)We’ve probably all been to the zoo sometime in our lives. It usually requires a drive to a large city…
A Big Fish Story
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/18Oct18-Wahpeton-North-Dakota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)We’ve all heard of fish stories – maybe you’ve even told one. But today I will tell you the biggest…
A Trading Network on the Northern Plains
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/13Jan17-Fort-Union-2017.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It was the site of a vast trading network on the northern plains. It’s history spanned forty years and today,…
The Knife River Indian Village
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/06Jan17-Knife-River-Indian-Village.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Two centuries ago, these villages contained more people than the city of St. Louis…yet only a handful of Europeans and…
Sacagawea
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/09/17Oct16-Sacagawea-2016.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)She is probably the most well known Native American woman in our country’s history…a lady vital to the success of…
An Aviation Pioneer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/06Sep13-Hatton-Elison-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Carl Ben Eielson hailed from Hatton, North Dakota. He was a pioneer in aviation and helped open the vast Alaskan…
The Hero from Hatton
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/05Sep13-Hatton-Elison-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on 600 KSJB covering eastern and central North Dakota. Folks there know of…
Scenic Route 14: The North Dakota Boy and the Top of the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/ScenicRoute-014.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 9:35 — 6.6MB)Carl Ben Eielson grew up in North Dakota, but his aviation career took him much further north than that. The…
Beyond Bismarck: Five Fun Visits in North Dakota
Some may think North Dakota has few places to explore. I have found quite the opposite. While cities such as Fargo, Grand Forks and Bismarck…
The Aviation of Carl Ben Eielson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/04Sep13-Hatton-Elison-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If you live in the states of North Dakota or Alaska and you quite likely have heard of Carl Ben…
Fort Union
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Fort-Union-2010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.2KB)It was the site of a vast trading network on the northern plains. It’s history spanned forty years and today,…
