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Fighting for the County Seat
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/08Dec22-Leota-Cowboy-War-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I’ve heard several stories over the years about towns fighting to be proclaimed the county seat in the early years…
Work That Saved the Lives of Millions
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/07Dec22-Norman-Borlaug-Home-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In an era when most farm boys completed eighth grade at most, this family saw something in their son that…
The Old Farmhouse That Impacted the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/06Dec22-Norman-Borlaug-Home-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The old farmhouse that sits about a dozen miles south of Cresco, Iowa that probably appears a lot like other…
Serving from the Civil War to WWII
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/05Dec22-USS-Constellation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)She was built in 1854 and one hundred years later she was still serving in the U.S. navy. We get…
USS Constellation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/02Dec22-USS-Constellation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A trip to the Baltimore harbor will provide you a glimpse of many ships. But it is perhaps the oldest…
Rescue at Sea
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/01Dec22-USS-Indianapolis-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Japan surrendered to the U.S, Americans rejoiced to know that the conflict was coming to an end. Buried in…
The Story of Survival – USS Indianapolis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/30Nov22-USS-Indianapolis-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve shared many stories of veterans on this show over the years. All are important stories, yet this one stands…
Top Secret Cargo Destined for Japan
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/29Nov22-USS-Indianapolis-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As August of 1945 neared, one ship took a top secret cargo across the Pacific. But for the men of…
The Remarkable Service of Paul Murphy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/28Nov22-USS-Indianapolis-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He grew up in the heart of the Midwest but during world war II his life at sea would become…
The Mayflower’s Landing Spot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/25Nov22-Mayflower-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we associate the Pilgrims with the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts. However, the landing spot was a bit accidental…
Pilgrims in Search of a Ship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/24Nov22-Mayflower-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It just happened to be a ship that was available to sail, but the ship that was chosen is still…
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…
