Category: Missouri
The Battle of Island Mound
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/26Oct22-Island-Mound-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may have never heard of the Battle of Island Mound. However, what occurred there in the fall of 1862…
Former Slaves and the Union Army
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/25Oct22-Island-Mound-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Where did the first former slaves take up arms and fight with the Union army? You may be surprised to…
In the Crosshairs of the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/10/24Oct22-Island-Mound-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the years leading up to the Civil War, counties adjacent to the Missouri-Kansas border saw bloodshed as pro and…
The Man Who Helped Us Find Our Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/30Sep22-Louisiana-Missouri-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)So I’ll share a little story about this show. I’ve been doing it 26 years and I travel to all…
Louisiana, Missouri History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/29Sep22-Louisiana-Missouri-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some towns take the name of a state. That is the case of Louisiana, Missouri. It is an early Mississippi…
The Unlikely Spy
Spies are supposed to work in secret. After all, it’s usually automatic death or imprisonment if you’re caught. But that was not the case for…
A Career Launched Amid the Titanic Tragedy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/27Sep22-Louisiana-Missouri-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all heard of the Titanic, and many of us know the name Carpathia, a nearby ship that helped rescue…
Nathan Boone
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. …
Daniel Boone, The Next Generation
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…
Visiting the Historic Soda Fountain
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…
The River Leaves Town
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…
Forrest City – The Steamboat Port
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…
Finding the Signature in the Cave
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…
Hannibal’s Famous Cave
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…
Son Tay Raid & Its Impact Today
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,…
The Raid on Son Tay
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…
Chances of Survival are 50-50
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…
The Farm Kid Becomes a Green Beret
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…
The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
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…
The One Thing in Common with Bread
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,…
