Category: Texas
An Abandoned Fort in the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/18May16-Fort-Lancaster-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the Civil War began, U.S. troops at some forts suddenly found men headed two different directions, north or south. …
The Army’s Camel Train
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/17May16-Fort-Lancaster-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before the days or cars and trucks, horses and mules were often called upon to bear the load. But at…
Fort Lancaster, Texas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/16May16-Fort-Lancaster-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today’s traveler might meet the occasional challenge of a traffic jam or a flat tire, but the travelers here back…
Getting An Appointment
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/16Jan15-War-in-the-Pacific-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Getting an appointment to one of the military academies can be difficult. But Mike Hagee had a hometown connection that…
The War in the Pacific Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/15Jan15-War-in-the-Pacific-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Where is the War in the Pacific museum located? It stands to reason it would be next to the Pacific…
A Permanent Trip to Luckenbach
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/21Mar14-Luckenbach-Texas-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Hayden Whittington began driving to Luckenbach, Texas before most people had ever heard of it. He remembers the days when…
Back to Luckenbach, Texas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/20Mar14-Luckenbach-Texas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB)This town has been on the map since the 1840s. Yet many would tell you no one every came looking…
A Ghost Town with a Steady Stream of Visitors
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/19Mar14-Luckenbach-Texas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the hill country surrounding Fredericksburg, Texas, there are many communities settled by German immigrants. They became place to get…
The National Museum of the War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/13Mar14-Combat-Zone-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some say Marvin gets to play with very large toys. He might even say that himself. Machine guns, tanks, flame…
Tanks and Barbed Wire in a Tropical Oasis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/12Mar14-Combat-Zone-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the middle of Texas’s hill country you’ll find a tropical oasis. There’s sand and palm trees, but you’ll also…
The Menger Hotel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/11Mar14-Menger-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a well-known general riding his horse into the lobby of a hotel…and it was met with applause. Another military…
A Bath With Every Room
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/10Mar14-Menger-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today just about every hotel room in America has a private bathroom included. Turn back the clock over a century…
Streets Wide Enough for Ox Cart U-Turns
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/07Mar14-Fredericksburg-Texas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today cities don’t need to be laid out so that ox carts can make U-turns. However, that was the plan…
Inside Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/22Nov13-JFK-Nurse-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital is a place Phyllis Hall knew well. As a nurse, she had worked in…
Scenic Route: Inside the ER After the JFK Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/ScenicRoute-016.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 17:07 — 15.7MB)Phyllis Hall was a nurse at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, and she was on duty on November 22, 1963, the…
A Dallas Emergency Room Nurse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/20Nov13-JFK-Nurse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For the next few features we’ll be visiting with Phyllis Hall, nurse at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. She was in the…
Alibates Flint
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/07Oct13-Alibates-Flint.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s called Alibates flint, and this spot in the panhandle of Texas is the only place in the world where…
An Unexpected Surprise
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/04Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)All this week we’ve heard from Pierce Allman, a Dallas broadcaster who witnessed and reported on the JFK assassination. The…
First Hand Accounts of the Kennedy Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/03Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One of the first broadcasters on the air with news of the shooting of President Kennedy was Pierce Allman. He…
A Reporter on the Biggest Story of All
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/02Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Pierce Allman was a broadcaster and manager at WFFA, a radio and television station in Dallas. In the fall of…
