Category: Oregon
A Museum Dedicated to Advertising
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/20Sep21-Museum-of-Advertising.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If it were not for sponsors…daily broadcasts like this…and radio stations themselves for that matter would not be able to…
Where is the Applegate Trail?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/08Sep21-Applegate-Trail.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people have heard of the Oregon Trail…but few have come across the Applegate Trail…yet it was the latter that…
Fort Buford’s Importance
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/13Aug20-Yellowstone-Confluence-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today little remains of Ft. Buford just inside North Dakota’s border with Montana. Yet it was one of the most…
Hijacked to America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/29Apr16-Dalles-Oregon-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)He did not want to come to America and once he got here he quickly made arrangement to go back…
The Best House at the Fort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/28Apr16-Dalles-Oregon-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Life at a frontier outpost could sometime be isolated and lacking the amenities of affluence. This commander had a plan…
What are the Dalles?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/02/27Apr16-Dalles-Oregon-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the more unusual place names in America. The Dalles. Where is it and what is it? If…
Stories from Pendleton, Oregon
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/02Dec15-Pendelton-Underground-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most towns have a mix of good and bad in their histories. Perhaps that’s the case for Pendleton, Oregon. Certainly…
Underground Tunnels and Secret Establishments
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/01Dec15-Pendelton-Underground-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may think stories of secret underground tunnels and secret subterranean establishments is a thing of folklore. But go below…
A Town for Early Travelers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/30Nov15-Pendelton-Underground-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)About 200 miles east of Portland, Oregon on today’s interstate 84, you’ll find a town that once served the early…
Traveling Back Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/25Oct13-Fort-Clatsop-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It was their goal…yet it was only the half way point of the trip…It was the Pacific Ocean that the…
A Suitable Winter Camp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/24Oct13-Fort-Clatsop-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)After spotting the Pacific Ocean on November 7th, 1805, Lewis and Clark searched for a suitable location for their winter…
The Balloon Bombs from World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/21Oct13-Balloon-Bombs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It was a foreign attack on the US mainland, yet few have heard the story about Japan’s balloon bomb and…