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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

The Quivira of Kansas

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/02Oct23-Coranodo-Quivera-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The area around Lyons, Kansas in the central part of the Sunflower State may appear to be sparsely populated by…

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Posted in American Countryside Montana

The Backcountry Horsemen

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/29Sep23-Columbia-Falls-Montana-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are called the Back Country Horseman.  Their work is something that may have impacted you and you never realized…

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Posted in American Countryside Montana

Packing Explosives to Open the Trail

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/28Sep23-Columbia-Falls-Montana-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Placing explosives on the backs of mules sounds like an unusual job, but it was just part of the work…

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Posted in American Countryside Montana

The Outhouse on Top of the Mule

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/27Sep23-Columbia-Falls-Montana-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all seen old time pictures of mule trains packing supplies to some remote location.  However, Stu Sorenson will tell…

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Posted in American Countryside Montana

Lodges of Glacier

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/26Sep23-Glacier-National-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We recently did some shows from the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park.  Also impressive is another park lodge…this…

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Posted in American Countryside Montana

Establishing Glacier National Park

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/25Sep23-Glacier-National-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Along Montana’s border with Canada you’ll find one of the most popular and most scenic national parks in the country. …

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Posted in American Countryside Texas

A Look Back at the Kennedy Assassination

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/22Sep23-Eugene-Boone-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the tragic events that unfolded in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated, we may forget that a police officer…

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Posted in American Countryside Texas

A Personal Connection to Jack Ruby

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/21Sep23-Eugene-Boone-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In November of 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy.  Just two days later, Jack Ruby shot Oswald.  Deputy Eugene…

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Posted in American Countryside Texas

Searching the Texas School Book Depository

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/20Sep23-Eugene-Boone-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the early afternoon of November 22nd, 1963, Deputy Eugene Boone was searching the 6th floor of the Texas School…

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Posted in American Countryside Texas

Watching the Presidential Motorcade

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/19Sep23-Eugene-Boone-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Deputy Eugene Boone was watching President Kennedy’s motorcade pass Main Street on November 22, 1963.  But just moments after the…

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Posted in American Countryside Washington, DC

The Famous Willard Hotel Bar

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/18Sep23-Willard-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The round bar at the Willard Hotel has been the places where generations of politicians, celebrities and power brokers have…

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Posted in American Countryside National Park National Park Service Wyoming

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…

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Posted in American Countryside National Park National Park Service Wyoming

Opening & Closing the Old Faithful Inn

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/14Sep23-Old-Faithful-Inn-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Depending on where live in the country, you sometimes have to ready your home for the cold winter months.  Now…

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Posted in American Countryside National Park National Park Service Wyoming

Yellowstone by Stagecoach

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/13Sep23-Old-Faithful-Inn-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today you can take a highway loop to the sites at Yellowstone National Park.  In the days before cars, that…

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Posted in American Countryside National Park National Park Service Wyoming

An Inn by the Geysers

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/12Sep23-Old-Faithful-Inn-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the latter half of the 1800s, explorers and early visitors to what is today Yellowstone National Park were amazed…

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois

The Van Doren Brothers

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/09/11Sep23-Van-Doren-Brothers.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Van Doren brothers hailed from Vermilion County, Illinois. Their father saw great potential in his sons and even made…

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois

Mr. Speaker

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/08Sep23-Speaker-of-the-House-Joe-Cannon-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Speaker of the House is an important position in government and this man is often regarded as the man…

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois

Joe Cannon’s Early Lessons

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/07Sep23-Speaker-of-the-House-Joe-Cannon-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What happens in a kid’s life can have an impact on what they do later in life.  That was the…

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois

A Name Within a Name

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/06Sep23-Speaker-of-the-House-Joe-Cannon-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A name may say a lot about a person.  In this case, there was a man’s name within a man’s…

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Posted in American Countryside Nebraska

The Landmark Golf Course

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/05Sep23-Landmark-Golf-Course-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You won’t find a big sign for this place and you’ll travel down plenty of gravel roads to reach it…

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