Category: Missouri
The Lake of the Ozarks
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/06/17Jun25-Lake-of-the-Ozarks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1930s, it became the largest lake in the world. Interestingly, that record-setter was nestled in the undeveloped forest…
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…
Jim the Wonder Dog
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/24Jan25-Jim-the-Wonder-Dog-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Any betting man or woman would love to know the winners before placing a wager. The people of Marshall, Missouri…
A Dog that Learned Amazing Tricks
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/23Jan25-Jim-the-Wonder-Dog-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people have dogs and some of us have even taught our dogs to do tricks. But Sam had a…
An Excellent Hunting Dog that Became More
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/22Jan25-Jim-the-Wonder-Dog-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It all began quite by accident. A pup mysteriously arrived on a train, addressed to a man who loved to…
Echo Bluff
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/06Jan25-Echo-Bluff.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hard to find a road that runs straight for very long around Emminence, Missouri. Perhaps that’s the charm that…
A Place Called Pennytown
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/03Jan25-Penneytown-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Virginia Huston holds a unique distinction. She was the last child born in Pennytown. It’s a fact that holds much…
Establishing a New City
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/02Jan25-Penneytown-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Establishing a new city can take plenty of planning. Now imagine trying to begin that new town when others are…
An Iconic Moment in Presidential Election History
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/08Nov24-Harry-Truman-Election-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the most iconic pictures in presidential election history. A picture of President Harry Truman holding up a…
Harry Truman’s Hopeful Campaign
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/07Nov24-Harry-Truman-Election-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the summer of 1948 Harry Truman was losing the race to return for a second term as president. But…
Expecting a Different Election Outcome
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/06Nov24-Harry-Truman-Election-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the day after the voting had ended and people woke up to find a different person was elected…
The Spook Light
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/30Oct24-Spook-Light-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)People like to have answers…and perhaps that’s what makes this phenomena so interesting…there seems to be no explaining it. So…
A Story With World-Wide Fame
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/29Oct24-Spook-Light-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I don’t care for stories about evil and gruesomeness at Halloween, yet a spooky tale may be in order. For…
A Strange Log Cabin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/11Sep24-St-Genevieve-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all seen a log cabin. Such structures were the norm for many Americans early in the country’s history. But…
Missouri’s Oldest Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/10Sep24-St-Genevieve-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When these French Catholics learned that the British Protestants had taken over, they weren’t pleased. It may be the reason…
When the Circuses Came to Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/26Jul24-William-Preston-Hall-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lancaster, Missouri is not a big town, but in the 1920s, the circuses came to town. And yes, I did…
The Horse King of the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/25Jul24-William-Preston-Hall-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some called him the Horse King of the World. It was fitting title for a man who literally bought and…
William Preston Hall
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/24Jul24-William-Preston-Hall-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)William Preston Hall lost both of his parents by the age of 15. He worked hard to make a living…
