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An Exclusive Club
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/07Nov12-Nanibajou-Lodge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey were members of this exclusive club, yet they may have never set foot here. It’s…
Just One Vote
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/06Nov12-Voting-2012.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 1.2MB)One of our greatest American freedoms is the power to vote. You may think one ballot may not mean much,…
Lincoln on the Other Side of Slavery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/04Nov12-Lincoln-Log-Cabin-Slavery-Case.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Abraham Lincoln is known as the great emancipator, a champion of ending slavery in the United States. However, in the…
A Two Story Outhouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/02Nov12-Double-Decker-Outhouse.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Outhouses built before the ear of indoor plumbing are becoming hard to find. Now try finding a double-decker outhouse. That…
A Wisconsin Dairy Farmer and an Alaska Gold Mine
When Dexter Clark decided that the life of a Wisconsin dairy farmer was not for him, he took up a new career that he says…
What’s Behind the “Spook” Light?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/10/31Oct12-Spook-Light.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)People like to have answers, and perhaps that’s what makes this phenomena so interesting. There seems to be no explaining…
A Circus Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/10/30Oct12-Circus-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 2.3MB)It all began with Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles, and John. Without their last names, those first names might not mean…
Joe and Aggie’s Restaurant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/29Oct12-Joe-and-Aggies-Restaurant.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)If you own a restaurant that’s been in business for over 70 years, you’re probably doing some very good cooking!…
The Battle of Island Mound
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/26Oct12-Island-Mound-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)You may have never heard of the Battle of Island Mound. However, what occurred there in the fall of 1862…
Former Slaves in the Union Army
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/25Oct12-Island-Mound-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Where did the first former slaves take up arms and fight with the Union army? You may be surprised to…
War on the Missouri and Kansas Border
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/24Oct12-Island-Mound-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)In the years leading up to the Civil War, counties adjacent to the Missouri-Kansas border saw bloodshed as pro and…
Jim Grey’s Petrified Wood
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/23Oct12-Jim-Grey-Petrified-Wood.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Jim says he’s in the treasure hunting business. He’s looking for items that are worth tens of thousands of dollars…
Some Ocean Front Property in Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/22Oct12-Yuma-Arizona-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)George Strait once sang that he had some oceanfront property in Arizona and if you’d buy that he’d throw the…
War Touching Innocent Lives
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/19Oct12-Palmyra-Massacre-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)War sometimes touches the lives of innocent people – citizens not involved in the conflict, yet caught in the middle…
A Tale of Tension
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/18Oct12-Palmyra-Massacre-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)It was the fall of 1862 and tensions ran high in northeast Missouri. Local Union and Confederate troops had skirmished…
Teddy Roosevelt National Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/17Oct12-Teddy-Roosevelt-National-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Although his time here in North Dakota was not long if measured in numbers of days…the quality of that time…
The Influence of North Dakota on a President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/16Oct12-Teddy-Roosevelt-National-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)To date, no U.S. president has been born in North Dakota…but this commander-in-chief experienced a rebirth there that he said…
Hi Jolly’s Legacy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/15Oct12-Camel-Caravan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)In Quartzite, Arizona you can find the grave of Hi Jolly. It’s the Americanized name of a man responsible for…
Thinking Outside the Box
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/12Oct12-Camel-Caravan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)How do you move people and supplies across a desert? Well, the answer may depend on what desert you are…
Steamboats in the Middle of a Desert
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/11Oct12-Bullhead-City-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)When you picture steamboats, we may have images of stately paddle wheeled ships moving up and down the Mississippi River….
