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Posted in American Countryside Oklahoma

An Unlikely Scenario

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/16Aug24-Frank-Phillips-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the surface it seemed like an unlikely scenario for success.  A barber from Iowa striking oil and building one…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa

The Town Grump of Readlyn, Iowa

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/15Aug24-Readlyn-Iowa-Town-Grump.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you enter Readlyn, Iowa you will find a sign that proclaims it has 857 friendly people and one old…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

Colorado Springs

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/14Aug24-Colorado-Springs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we may rely on the latest advancements in science and medicine to help cure disease.  Of course, in the…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

James’ Peak

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/13Aug24-Pikes-Peak-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve perhaps never heard of James’ Peak.  It’s more accurate to say you’ve heard of the mountain, but you simply…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

A Discovered Peak

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/12Aug24-Pikes-Peak-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As Lewis and Clark headed west and north in 1803 to explore the newly acquire Louisiana Purchase, another explorer headed…

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Posted in American Countryside Minnesota

Fort Belmont

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/09Aug24-Fort-Belmont-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you drive Interstate 90 through Jackson, Minnesota you’ll see a fort near the freeway.  Take the exit and explore…

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Posted in American Countryside Minnesota

A Community That Built Their Own Fort

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/08Aug24-Fort-Belmont-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1850s and 1860s there had been skirmishes between Native Americans and settlers in the area of northern Iowa…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa

Pilot Rock

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/07Aug24-Pilot-Rock.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the days before GPS or maps, you needed landmarks to find your way.  Just south of Cherokee, Iowa you’ll…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa

The Sanford Museum

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/06Aug24-Sanford-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One family can make a difference.  Stop in Cherokee, Iowa and you’ll find a museum and planetarium all there because…

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Posted in American Countryside Montana

Wolf Point

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/05Aug24-Wolf-Point-Montana.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It just stands to reason that a place named Wolf Point must have something to do with wolves somewhere in…

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Posted in American Countryside Montana

With or Without

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/02Aug24-With-or-Without.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes just a few words can reveal the place from which you hail, even when you don’t mention the actual…

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Posted in American Countryside Montana

The Wildhorse Stampede Rodeo

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/01Aug24-Wild-Horse-Stampede-Rodeo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In northeastern Montana you’ll find a rodeo that is over 100 years old.  With that kind of track record, you…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

Comic Books of the Day

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/31Jul24-Kit-Carson-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Comic books tell the story of larger than life characters.  In the mid 1800s, the comic books of the days…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

Getting to Know Kit Carson

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/30Jul24-Kit-Carson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes it’s not what you know but who you know.  In Kit Carson’s case, it was both that made him…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

Stories of Traveling West

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/29Jul24-Kit-Carson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This well-known frontiersman loved to hear the stories of those traveling west.  One day, he decided it was time to…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

When the Circuses Came to Town

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/26Jul24-William-Preston-Hall-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lancaster, Missouri is not a big town, but in the 1920s, the circuses came to town.  And yes, I did…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

The Horse King of the World

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/25Jul24-William-Preston-Hall-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some called him the Horse King of the World.  It was fitting title for a man who literally bought and…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

William Preston Hall

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/24Jul24-William-Preston-Hall-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)William Preston Hall lost both of his parents by the age of 15.  He worked hard to make a living…

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Posted in American Countryside North Dakota

Reaching Deep and Wide for Oil

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/23Jul24-Bakken-Oil-Fields-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s oil all around Tioga, North Dakota.  For many years though, there just wasn’t a good way to reach it. …

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Posted in American Countryside North Dakota

The Oil Fields of Northwestern North Dakota

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/22Jul24-Bakken-Oil-Fields-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us know of the oil fields in northwestern North Dakota.  However, we may not realize that the word…

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