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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….
Good Fences and Good Neighbors
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/10Oct12-Bullhead-City-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Every rancher knows they need good fences to keep the herd from running wild on the neighbor’s property. In the…
Arizona’s #2 Tourist Attraction
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/09Oct12-Lake-Havasu-London-Bridge.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 2.3MB)When bridges become obsolete, they are usually torn down and sold for scrap. This city thought their over century old…
Lake Havasu
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/08Oct12-Lake-Havasu.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 2.3MB)This city is not even 40 years old, yet it grown to over 60,000 residents. When you consider it’s in…
Making a Birch Bark Canoe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/05Oct12-Grand-Portage-Canoe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 2.3MB)Today you can find many canoes made from aluminum or fiberglass, but you don’t see many constructed of Birch bark….
The Northwest Company
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/04Oct12-Grand-Portage-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 2.3MB)Normally companies who operate illegally do so by carefully hiding their activities. This company made no such move to operate…
16 Weeks in a Canoe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/03Oct12-Grand-Portage-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 2.3MB)Imagine paddling a canoe for eight weeks, reaching your destination, and then turning around and paddling eight weeks back home….
The Most Important Commodity in the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/02Oct12-Grand-Portage-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 2.3MB)What is the most important commodity in the world? There are a variety of answers you might get to that…
The Women’s Astronaut Program
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/10/01Oct12-Mercury-Womens-Program.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 2.3MB)In the early 1980′s, the United States put its first woman into space, a full two decades after space travel…
The Official FFA Jacket
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/09/28Sep12-FFA-Jackets.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)A doctor is expected to wear a white coat. A policeman is supposed to have a badge. A cowboy, of…
A Special Street Corner
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/09/27Sep12-Winslow-Arizona.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 2.3MB)This song hit number 12 on the billboard charts 40 years ago, and it’s popularity seems to keep growing. In…
The Largest Island in The Largest Lake on the Largest Island in the Largest Lake in North America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/26Sep12-Isle-Royales-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 2.3MB)Concentrate on this piece of geographical trivia. It’s the largest island, in the largest lake, on the largest island, in…
Isle Royale National Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/09/25Sep12-Isle-Royales-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 2.3MB)It takes a boat or seaplane to get to this national park. Those who make the journey are rewarded with…
The Port of Duluth
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/24Sep12-Duluth-Harbor-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 2.3MB)Most farmers think of New Orleans as being a major grain handling port – and rightly so. However, for those…
One of the Busiest Ports in America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/21Sep12-Duluth-Harbor-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 2.3MB)It’s one of the largest and busiest ports in North America. That’s saying something when you consider the ships can only…
Aboard the Duluth Vista Fleet
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/20Sep12-Duluth-Vista-Fleet.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 2.3MB)For over 30 years Tom captained boats that hauled thousands of passengers every year. However, his passengers were never boarding…
Duluth’s Aerial Lift Bridge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/19Sep12-Duluth-Draw-Bridge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)Most of us have seen a drawbridge that allows ships to pass. However, it’s hard to find another bridge quite…
The Battle at Antietam
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/18Sep12-Antietam-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)These fields were filled with ears of corn nearing the harvest during September. The kernels would never be shelled though….
