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Winning An Old West Shootout
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/09May25-Wild-Bill-Hickok-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)John Sellers says the key to winning an old-west shootout was not quickness, but accuracy. And when you take into…
Shooting Over a Bad Debt
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/08May25-Wild-Bill-Hickok-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a movie “western” you might see two gunslingers fire their pistols at each other in the town square. That’s…
Unsettled Scores
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/07May25-Wild-Bill-Hickok-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the Civil War ended, there were still many unsettled scores of course. Towns along the border with North and…
Named for Lincoln Before He was President
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/06May25-Named-for-LIncoln-Before-He-Was-President.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s common that towns, school and other sites are named in honor of U.S. Presidents. So it’s natural that most…
The Phone Booth on Top of City Hall
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/05May25-Phone-Booth-on-City-Hall.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today technology can help us predict and spot several storms that may be headed our way. Of course, there was…
Fort Jesup
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/02May25-Fort-Jesup-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of this fort, yet it was very important in the United State’s war…
The Parts of the Louisiana Purchase
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/01May25-Fort-Jesup-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the United States made the Louisiana Purchase they didn’t get all of today’s state of Louisiana. Today I’ll take…
The Simpson’s Springfield
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/30Apr25-Springfield-VT-The-Simpsons.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many towns in this country named Springfield, but only one can be home to this fictional tv family. …
Springfield, Vermont History
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/29Apr25-Springfield-VT-History.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is some evidence this place in Vermont was in the crosshairs of the German military during World War II…
The Old Round Church
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/28Apr25-Old-Round-Church.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A church doesn’t want to leave any place for the devil to hide. This old church took that to heart…
Hyde Cabin
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/25Apr25-Hero-Island-Lake-Champlain-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The oldest log cabin in New England is on an island in Vermont. It’s a spot you can visit today,…
Lake Champlain
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/24Apr25-Hero-Island-Lake-Champlain-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the northeastern part of Vermont you’ll find Lake Champlain, and in that body of water there are the Hero…
Henry David Thoreau
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/23Apr25-Henry-David-Thoreau.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many writers take inspiration from nature. That is certain true for this man who is known to take long walks…
The Shot Heard ‘Round the World
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/22Apr25-Shot-Heard-Around-the-World-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is know as the “shot heard ‘round the world.” It was the shot considered to have begun the American…
A Meeting at the Old North Bridge
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/21Apr25-Shot-Heard-Around-the-World-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s been about 250 years since British Regulars met Citizens of Concord, known as the Provincials at the Old North…
Shreveport; and the Shroud of Turin
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/18Apr25-Shroud-of-Turin-Shreveport-1-.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Although the Shroud of Turin is located in Italy, the research and a traveling exhibit about it have connections to…
Shreveport’s Easter Connection
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/17Apr25-Shroud-of-Turin-Shreveport-1-.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Easter week is a time Christians celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In Shreveport, Louisiana you’ll find a…
Murder of the Other’s Ancestor
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/16Apr25-Colfax-Massacre-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are an unlikely duo. Turn back the clock to the 1870s, and one ancestor participated in the murder of…
Unknown Local History
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/15Apr25-Colfax-Massacre-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Avery Hamilton began researching his ancestors, he found a chapter of local history unknown to him. The more he…
The Colfax Massacre
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/04/14Apr25-Colfax-Massacre-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the years after the Civil War, amendments to the U.S. constitution were written to provide former slaves with the…
