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A Place Known as Park Hills
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/10/07Oct19-Missouri-Mines-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KREI in Farmington, MO. Folks there know the industry that drew some…
Surviving a Grizzly Bear Attack
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/04Oct19-Museum-of-Fur-Trade-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Being attacked by a grizzly bear was bad in itself. Now imagine your friends left you for dead and you…
The Story of Hugh Glass
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/03Oct19-Museum-of-Fur-Trade-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you know Hugh Glass, then you most likely know him for his run in with a Grizzly Bear. There…
Trading in the 1800s
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/02Oct19-Museum-of-Fur-Trade-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you did business on the high plains in the 1800s, transactions often took place in trade items. That was…
Lewis and Clark…or Alexander McKenzie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/01Oct19-Museum-of-Fur-Trade-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Have you heard of Lewis and Clark or Alexander McKenzie? Chances are you have heard of one but not the…
The Museum of Fur Trade
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/30Sep19-Museum-of-Fur-Trade-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KSCR in Chadron, NE. They know of a long time museum that…
A Beautiful, Natural Wonder
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/27Sep19-Canyon-de-Chelly.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It is one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the nation…and a place who’s centuries old history provides a…
Guinness Records Knows Casey, Illinois
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/26Sep19-Casey-Illinois-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The folks at Guinness Book World Records knows Casey, Illinois very well. It seems they have to send someone there…
A Beautiful Rocking Chair
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/25Sep19-Casey-Illinois-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a beautiful rocking chair. The kind of chair that would be the perfect place to relax. There’s plenty of…
How Windchimes Changed Lives
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/24Sep19-Casey-Illinois-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)They are the windchimes that changed the way people thought about this small town. How could wind chimes do that…
A Trip to the Rhino Barn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/23Sep19-Ashfall-Fossil-Beds-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you were going to a rhino barn, you’d of course expect to see rhinos, perhaps at a zoo. This…
An Amazing Site to See and Visit
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/20Sep19-Ashfall-Fossil-Beds-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In sharing these stories with you for over two decades I’ve seen a lot of interesting places, but I recently…
Volcanic Ash in Nebraska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/19Sep19-Ashfall-Fossil-Beds-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When you think volcanoes spewing clouds of hot ash, you probably do not think of the state of Nebraska. But…
A Steer, A Country Club, and Clint Eastwood
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/18Sep19-ML-McCrea-Rawhide-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today’s story involves a steer invited to eat at a Country Club, Clint Eastwood and one farm kid who found…
An Angus Steer Playing the Part of a Longhorn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/17Sep19-ML-McCrea-Rawhide-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He was an actor way out of his normal character roll. But the most intriguing thing was the fact, this…
An Impact Still Felt Today
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/16Sep19-Maggie-Walker-2019.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Her name may not be as prominent as Martin Luther King or Booker T. Washington, yet her impact is still…
Still Visiting a Star’s Birthplace
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/13Sep19-Elvis-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)About 70% of the 100,000 visitors that come to this small home each year are from outside the U.S. Yet…
The National Championship Pedal Pull
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/12Sep19-Pedal-Pull-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Every September kids from across the country come to the Corn Palace to compete in this national championship. It’s a…
Another Way to Invest Your Retirement Money
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/11Sep19-Pedal-Pull-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)People decide to do a multitude of things with their retirement money. Ken Meyers decided to invest his in something…
A Place They Call Barnacopia
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/10Sep19-Barnacopia.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)What does a farmer do when he retires from working the land? For Gary Bocker he really wasn’t looking to…
