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Raising the Civil War Death Toll
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/25Jul13-Civil-War-Medicine-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)In recent years, the casualty estimates from the Civil War have been raised. Joe Houts says there’s a good reason for…
Medicine in the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/24Jul13-Civil-War-Medicine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Most of us would do good just to know the name of our great, great grandfather. Joe Houts not only knows…
History’s First House Flipper?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/23Jul13-William-Wyeth-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Imagine building a grand, castle-like home for your wife, only to have her grow tired of it just a few…
The St. Joe Seven: Great Experiences In One of the Midwest’s Most Historic Towns
All this week, The American Countryside is in St. Joseph, Missouri. I’ve been around St. Joe for most of my life and here are seven…
Video: St. Joe’s Early Entrepreneur
The latest American Countryside video features St. Joseph, Missouri, and one of its early entrepreneurs. William Wyeth helped outfit settlers as they headed west from…
St. Joseph’s Early Entrepreneur
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/22Jul13-William-Wyeth-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Today we begin a series from St. Joseph, MO…the city many know as the place the Pony Express began and…
The Poisoned President?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/19Jul13-Zachary-Taylor.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Zachary Taylor died in office in 1850, yet his body was exhumed over a century later to determine if his…
The Wounded Eyewitness
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/18Jul13-Tague-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)James Tague holds an interesting distinction in the assassination of President John F Kenney. Other than the president and Governor…
A Skeptical Eyewitness
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/17Jul13-Tague-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)We continue our story with James Tague, a man who witnessed the assassination of president Kenney and was wounded by…
Scenic Route: Witness to an Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/ScenicRoute-012.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 19:52 — 18.2MB)You may think you know all there is to know about the JFK assassination. But there was one man wounded…
Share The American Countryside
We’ve been pretty busy lately trying to bring you The American Countryside however you want it, whenever you want it, and wherever you want it….
Moments After an Assassination…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/16Jul13-Tague-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)The city of Dallas was abuzz with excitement on November 22, 1963 as President Kennedy made a visit to the…
James Tague – Eyewitness and Researcher
James Tague was not only an unexpected eyewitness to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, he also has become a dedicated historical researcher. Tague’s…
Accidental Eyewitness to History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/15Jul13-Tague-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)This week we resume our series on the coming 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy. We visit with…
Restoring Our Airborne Past
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/12Jul13-Strategic-Air-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Restoring old aircraft perhaps sounds like a peaceful and fun way to spend one’s working or volunteer hours. Mark Hamilton…
America’s Strategic Air Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/11Jul13-Strageic-Air-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)It’s the largest and fastest Blackbird you’ll ever see. But it’s just one of many intriguing items associated with America’s…
More Important than Kitty Hawk?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/10Jul13-Wright-Brothers-Dayton.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The Wright Brothers first took flight in 1903 and that plane is in the Smithsonian. But the brothers said there…
Up, Up, and Away…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/09Jul13-Stratosphere-Balloons.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Before men could go into outer space, they first had to make it into the stratosphere. Many people don’t know…
The Truth About Paul Revere’s Famous Ride
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/08Jul13-Paul-Revere.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. On the eighteenth of April, in…
Gettysburg Week: Supporting the Soldiers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/05Jul13-Gettysburg-Christian-Commission.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)When a soldier heads to battle, there are many organizations that volunteer their services to help he or she and…
