Category: Oklahoma
Dueling Banjos
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/20Apr21-American-Banjo-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of dueling banjos…now multiply it times several hundred. It’s a unique convention of sights and sounds that entertains…
What One Man Did with the Skeletons in His Closet
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/19Mar21-Osteology-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jay has a lot of skeletons in his closet. Oh, but there’s much more. He has skeletons just about everywhere…
Unearthing a Career
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/18Mar21-Osteology-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jay’s father could have scolded him for what he’d unearthed. Most parents would say, “Put down that filthy thing!” His…
No Man’s Land
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/26Feb21-Boise-City-Oklahoma-Dust-Bowl-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the only county in the nation that border’s five different states. Some have called it “No Man’s Land” but…
Black Sunday
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/25Feb21-Boise-City-Oklahoma-Dust-Bowl-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The date was April 14th, 1935 in Boise City, Oklahoma. What began as a beautiful Sunday morning turned into something…
Dust Bowl Epicenter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/24Feb21-Boise-City-Oklahoma-Dust-Bowl-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can’t pinpoint anyone place the Dust Bowl began. However, one of the hardest hit locations was in the Oklahoma…
The Worst Bombing Crew Becomes the Best
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/23Feb21-Boise-City-Oklahoma-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They made a mistake worthy of a court martial. A bombing crew made a wrong turn and bombed their own…
The U.S. Town Bombed By Its Own Planes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/22Feb21-Boise-City-Oklahoma-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)During World War II, many cities along the U.S. coastline prepared for an invasion from the enemy. However, after the…
Tracking a Giant in the Oklahoma Panhandle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/02/19Feb21-Boise-City-Oklahoma-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There were giants roaming the panhandle of Oklahoma. That’s what we can decipher from the clues they left behind. Journey…
Fort Reno
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/12/15Dec20-Fort-Reno-Oklahoma.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At one time this fort raised and trained over 14,000 horses and mules at a time. Many of those animals…
An Amazing Couple
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/01/17Jan20-Pawnee-Bill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It may have seemed this famous western showman had married the wrong woman. After all, his bride was a city…
A Childhood Hero
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/01/16Jan20-Pawnee-Bill-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us had childhood heroes, and for Gordon it was the famous showman Buffalo Bill. What he might never…
Where to Park a Plane?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/07/19Jul19-Frank-Phillips-Oil-Company.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Frank bought a plane he needed a hangar in which to park it. Soon the plane wasn’t the only…
The King of Marriage
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/14Feb09-Tom-Mix-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Tom Mix was known as the King of the Cowboys, starring in over 300 films from 1910 to 1935. He…
The King of the Cowboys: Tom Mix
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/13Feb09-Tom-Mix-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was king of the cowboys, a real-life ranch hand that won the hearts of the nation with his amazing…
The Rock Café
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/11/03Dec18-Rock-Café.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s not the Hard Rock Café…and frankly…that is just fine with about everyone that stops here. It’s been called the…
Springing Up a State Capital Overnight
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/07Jun18-Oklahoma-Land-Rush-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If a city grows quickly, we might say it sprang up overnight. This state capital literally sprang into existence in…
Pawnee Bill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/12/12Jan18-Pawnee-Bill-2018-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It may have seemed this famous western showman had married the wrong woman. After all, his bride was a city…
The Cowboy Named Gordon Lillie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/12/11Jan18-Pawnee-Bill-2018-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Many of us had childhood heroes, and for Gordon it was the famous showman Buffalo Bill. What he might never…
Best of 2017: A Store Named Pops
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/01Jan18-Best-of-2017-Pops.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Most people travel Old Route 66 for the nostalgia. So on the surface, this convenience store might not seem to…