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President Andrew Johnson
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/14Nov25-Andrew-Johnson.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One vote may not seem like much, but it’s one vote that kept this man as President of the United…
One of the Longest and Best Known Acts in the Country
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/13Nov25-The-Baldknobbers-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It had an inauspicious beginning. A variety show held in the basement of city hall that attracted a couple dozen…
The Baldknobbers
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/12Nov25-The-Baldknobbers-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They were called the Baldknobbers – a group of vigilantes that roamed the Ozarks dispensing justice as they saw fit. …
The Dalton Gang Hideout
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/11Nov25-Dalton-Gang-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is a very famous tunnel running beneath the surface of a barnyard in Meade, Kansas. It was built in…
A Dalton Without a Life of Crime
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/10Nov25-Dalton-Gang-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The infamous Dalton Gang robbed individuals and businesses in the Midwest during the early 1890s. But not all of the…
The End of the Line
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/07Nov25-Faith-South-Dakota.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the end of the train line, and that fact meant that very few towns survived west of here….
The Faith, South Dakota Dinosaurs
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/06Nov25-Faith-South-Dakota-Dinosaurs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some might think there’s not too much to see around Faith, South Dakota. But when people began to do a…
Floyd of Rosendale
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/05Nov25-Floyd-of-Rosendale-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Minnesota plays Iowa in football each year, the winning team will hoist a unique trophy for all to see. …
A Rivalry Between Minnesota and Iowa
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/04Nov25-Floyd-of-Rosendale-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some universities may have heated rivalries, but one contest between Minnesota and Iowa crossed the line in the 1930s. The…
Those Huge Overalls
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/03Nov25-Gays-Mill-Wisconsin-Huge-Overalls.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some clothing departments have a section for Big & Tall men. One particular piece of clothing at Julia’s store definitely…
Gays Mil, Wisconsin Apples
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/31Oct25-Gays-Mill-Wisconsin-Apples.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Gays Mill, Wisconsin is a town of about 500 people. However, every September the town will swell to perhaps as…
The Museum of Unremarkable Objects
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/30Oct25-Museum-of-Unremarkable-Objects-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many museums hold unique and precious items you won’t find anywhere else. This museum does quite the opposite and that,…
Artistic Stumps
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/29Oct25-Museum-of-Unremarkable-Objects-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When a tree was toppled in a storm near Martha and Steve’s rural home in southwestern Wisconsin, they never imaged…
A Look Back to the NFA 60 Years Later
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/28Oct25-NFA-FFA-Merger-60th-Anniverary-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1965 the Future Farmers of America and the New Farmers of America combined their organizations. Today we take a…
Separate, But Not Always Equal
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/27Oct25-NFA-FFA-Merger-60th-Anniverary-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Separate but equal was almost always separate and NOT equal. That was the case in agricultural education as well with…
The Hotel Roanoke
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/24Oct25-Hotel-Roanoke-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At one time is was the grandest of hotels in the state of Virginia. But the wheels of time eventually…
How to Build a Large City
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/23Oct25-Hotel-Roanoke-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What’s it take to build a large city? A railroad and nice hotel of course. It was a winning combination…
A Focal Point of National Attention
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/22Oct25-Camp-Nelson-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Times of war often bring the displacement of families simply fleeing the conflict. That was the case in this country…
Camp Nelson
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/21Oct25-Camp-Nelson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1863 and 1864 a place called Camp Nelson in Kentucky became a focal point for men wanting to join…
On the Wrong Side of the Line
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/20Oct25-Camp-Nelson-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the Civil War began, some citizens found that the places they lived were on the wrong side of the…
