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The Bank is in the Mail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/23Nov22-Bank-of-Vernal-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a mail shipment so large that it overwhelmed a tiny post office and caused the postal service to…
Building A Bank One Brick at a Time
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/22Nov22-Bank-of-Vernal-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you need to ship 40 tons of bricks, you of course use…parcel post. That’s what one man did to…
He once was just, “Bill”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/21Nov22-Buffalo-Bill-Oakly-Kansas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before he was known as Buffalo Bill, he was simply William Cody. We all assume he must have some connection…
Remember the Gettysburg Address
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/18Nov22-Lincoln-Library-Historic-Doc-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Almost every American can recite the opening line of this speech. It is perhaps the best known in American history,…
The Most Important Speech?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/17Nov22-Lincoln-Library-Historic-Doc-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What is the most important document that Christian McWhirter handles at this vault? He admits, the answer may seem boring,…
Lincoln’s Big Three
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/16Nov22-Lincoln-Library-Historic-Doc-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Although Abraham Lincoln served as president over a century and a half ago, people still are very interested in his…
Opening the Vault of Lincoln’s Papers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/15Nov22-Lincoln-Library-Historic-Doc-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We know Abraham Lincoln as a great president and orator. However, how much do you know about Lincoln as a…
A Trip to Hulaville
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/14Nov22-Hulaville.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people think you need to go to Hawaii to see hula girls. Not so. In fact, it was one…
Charley Havlat – An Important Moment in World War II History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/11Nov22-Dorchester-Nebraska-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In May of 1945, Dorchester, Nebraska native, Charley Havlat, was killed in action in the European theatre of World War…
The Burden Family
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/10Nov22-Dorchester-Nebraska-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The journey from slavery to freedom was one of many challenges for many families in the years following the Civil…
Advertising Artistic Stage Masterpiece
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/09Nov22-Dorchester-Nebraska-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may not think of advertising as a work of art. A trip to the farm town of Dorchester, Nebraska…
Dorchester, Nebraska’s Log Cabin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/08Nov22-Dorchester-Nebraska-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can still find a few old, historic log cabins in this country. Many are museums of early pioneer life. …
Lincoln on the Other Side of the Debate
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/07Nov22-Lincoln-Log-Cabin.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Abraham Lincoln is known as the great emancipator, a champion of ending slavery in the United States. However, in the…
Bright Paint for an Exclusive Club
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/04Nov22-Nanibajou-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Pick a paint color or new carpet for your home and it will probably fade over time. However, the paint…
Naniboujou Lodge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/03Nov22-Nanibajou-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey were members of this exclusive club, yet they may have never set foot here. It’s…
Cattle Ranching President
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/02Nov22-Theodore-Roosevelt-National-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Although his time here in North Dakota was not long if measured in numbers of days, the quality of that…
From the Badlands to the White House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/01Nov22-Theodore-Roosevelt-National-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)To date, no U.S. president has been born in North Dakota…but this commander-in-chief’s experiences there may be the reason he…
The Halloween Capital of the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/31Oct22-Anoka-Minnesota-Halloween-Parade-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The town of Anoka, Minnesota can make quite a claim. That title traces its history to a twelve year old…
Taming the Outhouse Tippers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/28Oct22-Anoka-Minnesota-Halloween-Parade-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Anoka, Minnesota had a problem. Every Halloween the local kids were pulling all kinds of pranks – tipping outhouses, turning…
Arizona Treasure Hunt
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/27Oct22-Jim-Greys-Petrified-Wood-Shop.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jim says he’s in the treasure hunting business. He’s looking for items that are worth tens of thousands of dollars…
