Category: Missouri
Answered Prayers in Tehran
In the middle of his most trying time, Rocky Sickmann wondered if God was still there – if God would get him out of a…
January 20, 1981
January 20th, 1981 was inauguration day in the U.S. It was also the day a 444 day hostage crisis ended in Iran… https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/11/2026-1111-Rocky-Sickman-Iran-Hostage-3.mp3Podcast: Play in…
Trigger on the War
For those of use old enough to remember the events of 1979 and 1980, we may recall the plight of 52 U.S. hostages held in…
The Attack on the Embassy
Rocky Sickmann was in a position to change the course of U.S. history. If he had pulled the trigger on his weapon, perhaps the last…
Museums Within a Museum
Did you ever imagine you might turn a collection into your own museum? This man has museums within museums. In fact, you might call him…
The Harold Bell Wright Museum
There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Harold Bell Wright. He was one of the top author’s a century ago, selling books at an…
The World’s Largest Toy Museum
The parents of every young kids, and some old ones, know they love their toys. Tom Beck set out to put as many of those…
The Largest Collection of Its Kind
What should you do with your time when you retire? Tom and Wendy Beck took an adventure that resulted in the largest collection of its…
Dick’s Five and Ten
This is the type of store you can get lost in. Not because the layout is a maze, but rather because you just don’t know…
Succeeding For Decades
An average Wal-Mart SuperCenter has 140,000 items. Steve Hartley runs a store much smaller in size, yet carries over 75,000 items, and he’s competed and…
