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Moving Supplies in the Desert

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/25Aug15-Camel-Caravan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)How do you move people and supplies across a desert? Well, the answer may depend on what desert you are…

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Boats Cruising the Middle of a Desert

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/24Aug15-Bullhead-City-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you picture steamboats, we may have images of stately paddle wheeled ships moving up and down the Mississippi River….

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

Good Fences

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/21Aug15-Bullhead-City.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Every rancher knows they need good fences to keep the herd from running wild on the neighbor’s property.  In the…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

Remembering Flight 599 on the Kansas Prairie

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/20Aug15-Knute-Rockne-Memorial-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was perhaps an unlikely tour guide and an even more unlikely person to be recognized by cheering crowds and…

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The Knute Rockne Tragedy

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/19Aug15-Knute-Rockne-Memorial-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s been over eighty years since Knute Rockne walked the football sidelines at Notre Dame.  However, phrases like “Win one…

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Crash in the Flint Hills

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/18Aug15-Knute-Rockne-Memorial-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was an unlikely spot for a national story – the Flint Hills of Kansas in the early 1930s.  A…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

A Record Setting Bridge

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/17Aug15-Royal-Gorge-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)For over seven decades, this bridge was a record setter, the highest suspension bridge in the world.  It continues to…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

Natural Beauty Stumbled Upon By Accident

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/14Aug15-Royal-Gorge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Thousands of people still drive to this location to be amazed by the natural beauty of this place.  It makes…

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Posted in American Countryside Michigan

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/13Aug15-Great-Lakes-Shipwreck-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Perhaps it’s fitting that you have to go a bit out of the way to find the Great Lakes Shipwreck…

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Posted in American Countryside Michigan

A Fear on Lake Superior

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/12Aug15-Great-Lakes-Shipwreck-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Some sailors and airman have long feared the Bermuda Triangle for the mysterious fate of some who have passed there. …

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Posted in American Countryside Michigan

Whitefish Point

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/11Aug15-Great-Lakes-Shipwreck-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On a road map, it’s simply listed as “Whitefish Point.”  That place name has little significance to most, but for…

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Posted in American Countryside Arizona

A Long Bus Ride

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Aug15-Monument-Valley-Bussing.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some students must ride a bus to school.  But imagine a school district where a student might spend nearly six…

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Raising $4 Million In a County With Only 3 Thousand People

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/07Aug15-Cottonwood-Falls-Courthouse-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A county of only about three thousand people was tasked with a major challenge.  They needed to raise about $4…

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A $40,000 Architectural Masterpiece

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/05Aug15-Cottonwood-Falls-Courthouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It only cost $40,000 to build this architectural masterpiece.  Of course, that was about 150 years ago, but the small…

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A Building Beautiful Inside and Out

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/06Aug15-Cottonwood-Falls-Courthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I’ve seen many courthouses in my journeys, but this one has to be one of the most amazing.  Beautiful inside…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

Check In and Watch a Movie

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/04Aug15-Movie-Manor-Motel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When you check into this hotel, you’ll find the name of a movie star on your door.  In fact, you…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

Falling Asleep Watching a Movie

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/03Aug15-Movie-Manor-Motel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Many folks have fallen asleep on their couch while watching a movie.  In the case of one man in Monte…

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Tunneling In a Prison Camp

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/31Jul15-Ed-Davidson-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most prison camps wouldn’t want their detainees digging tunnels to freedom. But at Ed’s camp, it was a way to…

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Learning Things About Yourself You Never Knew

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/30Jul15-Ed-Davidson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Ed believed he was a well informed pilot flying for the United States. Then the German captured him and told…

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Crossing the Atlantic for World War II

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/29Jul15-Ed-Davidson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Ed Davidson got to cross the Atlantic on the Queen Mary…but his trip wasn’t for pleasure, for he made that…

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