http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/05Jul24-Mountain-Man-Rendezvous-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the early 1800s, the demand for beaver pelts for top hats was strong, but the world supply was short. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/04Jul24-John-Phillip-Sousa.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we look back to a story who’s music captures the spirit of the fourth of July…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/03Jul24-Wausau-Depot.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never been to this railroad depot.  However, if you’re over forty years old, there’s a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/02Jul24-Father-of-Legal-Gambling.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When most people think of big time gambling they think of Las Vegas.  No doubt there was plenty of illegal…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/01Jul24-The-Basque.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The high desert regions of Nevada, Oregon and Idaho you will often find a people called the Basque who are…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/28Jun24-Lovelock-Cave.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today this area is a mostly dry lake bed.  However, we have evidence this was once a much wetter place. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/27Jun24-Chief-Winnemucca.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Along interstate 80 in north central Nevada you’ll come to a town with a unique name – a name that…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/26Jun24-Salem-Sue-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you didn’t know what to expect when driving west from Bismarck, North Dakota on Interstate 94, you might be…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/25Jun24-Salem-Sue-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many small towns celebrate their heritage with a special festival or maybe other important sites throughout the town.  New Salem,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/24Jun24-Cheese-Capitol.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lots of people love cheese and for those who can’t get enough of it, perhaps the Cheese Capital of the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/21Jun24-Wade-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just as hotels today might serve guests traveling the interstate highways, there were inns that catered to the travelers using…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/20Jun24-Wade-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was once a time when horses and carriage ruled the roads, and in those days before the automobile, the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/19Jun24-Galveston-Juneteenth-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The federal government established Juneteenth as a national holiday in 2021.  However, the celebration of the events of that date…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/18Jun24-Galveston-Juneteenth-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On January 1st, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.  However, that document that freed slaves had little impact if…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/17Jun24-Galveston-Hurricane-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history – a storm that hit Galveston, Texas in September 1900 that causes…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/14Jun24-Galveston-Hurricane-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we may think of this city as a beach getaway.  In 1900 it certainly had beaches but it was…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/13Jun24-Hatch-Chile.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you play with fire your liable to get burned.  But on Jim Lytle’s farm, fire is what they grow. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/06/12Jun24-Center-of-Hemisphere-.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I recently headed west on highway 29 from Wausau, Wisconsin.  I then turned north, back west, then back north…and then,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/11Jun24-Standing-Bear-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At the time of his trial, Standing Bear did not have the right to take a matter to court.  However,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/10Jun24-Standing-Bear-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A father was simply trying to bury his teenage son.  But a trip that would take them many miles to…