Category: Wyoming
The Mother Store
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/17Oct25-JC-Penney-Mother-Store-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called the “mother store” because it was the first of many. You can still come here to purchase modern…
Tracing a Store to Its Roots
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/16Oct25-JC-Penney-Mother-Store-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you want to make it big in retailing clothes and general merchandise, you might not pick southwestern Wyoming as…
The Joss House
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/10Oct25-Joss-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It took a large workforce from points around the globe to lay the rails that connected the nation. In Evanston,…
The Cheyenne Depot Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/08/15Aug25-Cheynne-Depot-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Cheyenne, Wyoming was one of the towns known as “hell on wheels” for its wild railroad boomtown beginnings. You can…
The Wyoming Fossil Store
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/17Jul25-Wyoming-Fossil-Store-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I recently visited a very interesting store in southwestern Wyoming. You’ll find quite a price range – everything from twenty-five…
Soft Stone in Wyoming
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/07/16Jul25-Wyoming-Fossil-Store-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The soft stone of southwestern Wyoming preserves the story of what this area looked like eons ago. It is unique…
Chugwater, Wyoming
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/11Feb25-Chugwater-Wyoming.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is noted to be the longest running image used on a license plate anywhere in the world. The image…
The Hawaiian World Champion Cowboy
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/16Oct24-Hawaiian-World-Champion-Cowboy.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The accomplishment was so spectacular it is still remembered over a century later. A cowboy journeyed thousands of miles to…
Riding 8 Seconds
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/15Oct24-Lane-Frost.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)World class sprinters can complete the 100 meters in under 10 seconds. In this sport, you are world class at…
The Daddy of Them All
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/14Oct24-Cheyenne-Frontier-Days-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s billed as the “Daddy of Them All” and that it is – a rodeo so big and so grand…
Enticing People to Take a Ride
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/11Oct24-Cheyenne-Frontier-Days-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The railroad was looking for ways to entice people to ride the rails for one day excursions to see unique…
Little America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/16Jul24-Little-America-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This place isn’t really a town, yet it has its own zip code. Sometimes it’s a bit of a game…
A Frigid Night on the Plains
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/15Jul24-Little-America-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One young sheepherder never forgot a frigid night he spent on the plains of Wyoming. The miserable weather had him…
The First Female Officer Holder
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/12Jul24-First-Female-Office-Holder.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1869 Wyoming territory gave women the right to vote and to hold public office. Just a few months after…
South Pass City
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/11Jul24-South-Pass-City-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Oregon Trail crossed the Continental Divide at South Pass in Wyoming. Just west of that pass you’ll find a…
A Better Place to Find Gold
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/10Jul24-South-Pass-City-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There had been rumors of gold in this area for years, but there always seemed to be a better place…
Mountain Men of the West
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/09Jul24-Mountain-Men-of-the-West.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If I were to ask you to name some famous Mountain Men of the 1800s, there are usually some common…
The Mountain Man Rendezvous
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/08Jul24-Mountain-Man-Rendezvous-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was called the Mountain Man Rendezvous and it was held for sixteen years, mostly in the present state of…
Untapped Sources of Beavers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/05Jul24-Mountain-Man-Rendezvous-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the early 1800s, the demand for beaver pelts for top hats was strong, but the world supply was short. …
The Other House for the President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/15Sep23-Willard-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The President, of course, lives in the White House. But over the decades, when a president or president-elect has needed…
