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Root Capital
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Root-Capital-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 947.3KB)American farmers know the financial difficulties that result from conditions that are often out of their control. Now imagine you…
Limited Married Life at Fort Hays
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Fort-Hays-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)(Hays, Kansas) – For an enlisted man at Fort Hays, it wasn’t enough to win a young woman’s heart and…
The Men at Fort Hays
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Fort-Hays-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)The Army certainly needs strong, upstanding young men and women to fill its ranks today. But in the late 19th…
Fort Hays, Kansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Fort-Hays-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)(Fort Hays, Kansas) As Americans moved from east to west, a network of forts sprang up across the high plains…
From Silver Mines to Fields of Sheep
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Ketchum-Sheep1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)(Ketchum, Idaho) When the silver ran out, the sheep moved in; thousands of them, in fact! This place became one…
The Ketchum, Idaho Sheep Festival
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Kethum-Sheep-Festival.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 1.9MB)Today the number of snow skiers to this valley outnumbers the sheep that graze the summer mountainsides. However, the sheep…
Swimming in a Sea of Burning Oil
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Pearl-Harbor-Survivor-Stu-Hedley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Stu Hedley may have believed that once he left his ship, the West Virginia, in Pearl Harbor on the morning…
Surviving Pearl Harbor: A First Hand Account
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Pearl-Harbor-Survivor-Stu-Hedley.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.8MB)We’ve heard of the events of December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor. Today, we meet one of the men who…
Networking the Union with the Pony Express
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/William-Waddell-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Although the first riders of the Pony Express left from St. Joseph, Missouri, it could be argued that the headquarters…
Forming the Pony Express
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/William-Waddell-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)They are three names etched in the history of western exploration and settlement: Russell, Majors and Waddell. Here’s one of…
Dawson Dolly
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Dawson-Dolly1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 950.0KB)Skagway, Alaska has a wealth of history from its gold mining days. One of the personalities who shares that story…
Back to Baseball
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Jerry-Coleman-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Jerry Coleman served his country as a pilot during World War II, then returned home to play professional baseball. 1949…
A Yankee Pilot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Jerry-Coleman-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.9KB)It is difficult to fathom the changes that took place in everyday life in the United State, yet alone Hawaii,…
Waiting to Join…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Jerry-Coleman-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 951.8KB)Jerry Coleman was a high school senior when the Japanese hit Pearl Harbor. He was drafted the very next year,…
From Pearl Harbor into World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Al-Bodenlos-Pearl-Harbor-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Al Bodenlos can tell you plenty about building airport runways. Of course, most of those he helped build were on…
A Witness to the Beginning of World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Al-Bodenlos-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Al Bodenlos was in Honolulu on the morning of December 7, 1941. Like many people there, he didn’t immediately realize…
An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Al-Bodenlos-Pearl-Harbor-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.2KB)Al was about to witness the most realistic military training exercise he had ever seen. As he got closer to…
The Father of the Green Revolution
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Norman-Borlaug-2009.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.9KB)One news anchored reported that this man may be responsible for saving more lives than anyone in the 20th Century….
The Birthplace of Stephen Douglas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Stephen-Douglas-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 948.8KB)Abraham Lincoln led the country through the Civil War, but it was this man who defeated him for the Senate…
The Oldest House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/St-Augustine-Oldest-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:31 — 2.3MB)(St. Augustine, Florida) – Some people may purchase older homes and restore them to their original beauty. But when it…
