http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/13Sep22-Nathan-Boone-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before there was a U.S. cavalry, this man was noted to be the top mounted military man in the nation. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/12Sep22-Nathan-Boone-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us remember the frontiersman and explorer, Daniel Boone from our history books.  However, we may not be familiar…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/17Aug22-Forest-City-Missouri-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This is a story about people in small towns who are determined to make good things happen.  They may have…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/16Aug22-Forest-City-Missouri-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The last steamboats docked here in 1868. In fact, some of theme didn’t make it out of town before the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/08/15Aug22-Forest-City-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you drive into Forrest City, Missouri these days newcomers might be surprised to learn a couple of facts about…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/18Jul22-Mark-Twain-Cave-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine looking through 250,000 signatures, in dark narrow passages with a flashlight in an effort to find where one very…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/15Jul22-Mark-Twain-Cave-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are plenty of caves to visit in this country, but this one just happened to be explored many times…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/12Jul22-Son-Tay-Raid-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some would say the raid on the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam in 1970 was a failure.  Yet,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/11Jul22-Son-Tay-Raid-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the fall of 1970, the U.S. military conducted a mission into north Vietnam to rescue about 60 POWs.  Terry…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/08Jul22-Son-Tay-Raid-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What would go through your mind if you were selected for a mission and told your chances for survival were…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/07Jul22-Son-Tay-Raid-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Terry grew up during the Vietnam War.  As a young man he decided to enter the armed forces.  When presented…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/10May22-Chillicothe-Sliced-Bread-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sliced bread was born, but there’s much more to this story, including how the new product was received and where…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/05/09May22-Chillicothe-Sliced-Bread-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Go down a supermarket aisle and you can find lots of different types of bread.  White bread, wheat, honey oat,…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/04May22-Chilicothe-T-Mobile-Hometown-Grant.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the north side of the square in Chillicothe, MO you’ll find a small park where some buildings once stood. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/11Apr22-Herman-Missouri-Wurst-House-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Mike would not consider himself a professor, but a trip to this town will find him teaching classes about something…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/08Apr22-Herman-Missouri-Wurst-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Vending machines have been around for decades, so doing a show about such a machine seems to be nothing extraordinary. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/07Apr22-Herman-Missouri-Wurst-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Normally having the worst house in town would not be a good thing.  But when you spell “Worst” w-u-r-s-t, well…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/06Apr22-Herman-Missouri-Stone-Hill-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)John’s father was asked to take a risk free chance on what could be the dream of a lifetime.  That…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/05Apr22-Herman-Missouri-Stone-Hill-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was beautiful artwork that was part of the underground cellars here at Stone Hill winery in Herman, Missouri.  But…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/04Apr22-Herman-Missouri-Stone-Hill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We know that France is known for its vineyards but many of us don’t know that in the mid 1800s…