Author: Tom
Home, Sweet Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/24Dec12-Stones-River-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Nearly a century and a half ago two armies shared a sentimental tune before one of the deadliest battles of…
President Lincoln Needed A Victory
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/21Dec12-Stones-River-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)The Union army was defeated at Fredricksburg, Virginia in mid December 1862. President Lincoln needed a victory to bolster the…
The Denver, Missouri Sleigh Works
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/20Dec12-Denver-Sleigh-Works.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)Santa needs a sleigh to make deliveries around the world. This man makes sure he will never run out of…
On the Scouting Patrol
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/18Dec12-Kidder-Massacre.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 1.4MB)Today messages can be relayed to a military patrol within a split second. But in the 1860s, it took a…
The First Helicopter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/17Dec12-First-Helicopter.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 1.4MB)The first operational helicopters took flight in the 1930s. Wide spread production of the aircraft didn’t occur for another…
Osage Village
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/14Dec12-Osage-Village.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)Perhaps the first Europeans to come to his part of southwest Missouri were amazing to see such a vast village…
The Oklahoma Land Rush
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/13Dec12-Cherokee-Strip.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)Imagine a train chugging south out of Kansas with people jumping from the cars all along its route. The reason…
Governor Gravesites in Missouri
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/12Dec12-Missouri-Governor-Cemeteries.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 1.4MB)Down dirt and gravel roads, off the main highway on paths once well traveled, but now forgotten, you can find…
Six Years in Pearl Harbor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/11Dec12-Pearl-Harbor-Wilbur-Wright-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 1.4MB)For those who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, many soon found themselves assigned to duties throughout the Pacific. But…
A Story of Survival at Pearl Harbor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/10Dec12-Pearl-Harbor-Wilbur-Wright-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:56 — 1.3MB)He was a survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Interestingly, his ship was not hit by a torpedo, yet…
A Six Year Tour in Honolulu
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/07Dec12-Pearl-Harbor-Wilbur-Wright-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 1.4MB)Before 1941, Pearl Harbor was a place unknown to many Americans. That was certainly the case for Wilbur Wright, an…
Camp Floyd
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/06Dec12-Camp-Floyd-Utah-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 1.4MB)For three years, 3500 soldiers served alongside one another in Utah Territory. It was the largest military outpost in the…
A Three Year Stay with No Military Action
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/05Dec12-Camp-Floyd-Utah-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)In the summer of 1858, U.S. soldiers went to Utah to put down a supposed Mormon rebellion. However, their three…
Sending Troops to a Troubled Spot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/04Dec12-Camp-Floyd-Utah-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 1.3MB)In 1857, rumors of rebellion made to the oval office. President James Buchanan ordered troops to head to the trouble…
The Dalton Gang
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/03Dec12-Dalton-Gang.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.7MB)Today these streets and the adjacent alley are peaceful avenues lines with small town businesses. The fall of 1892, it…
One of the Most Sobering Stories of World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/30Nov12-USS-Indianapolis-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)When Japan surrendered to the United States, Americans rejoiced to know the conflict was coming to an end. Buried in…
A Survivor from the Worst Loss of Life at Sea in US Naval History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/29Nov12-USS-Indianapolis-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)Of the many stories we’ve covered, our programs this week tell the story of the worst loss of life at…
A Top Secret Cargo Across the Pacific
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/28Nov12-USS-Indianapolis-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)As August of 1945 neared, one ship took a top secret cargo across the Pacific. For the men of the…
The Story of the USS Indianapolis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/27Nov12-USS-Indianapolis-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:30 — 1.1MB)He grew up in the heart of the Midwest, but during World War II, his life at sea would become…
Buffalo Bill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/26Nov12-Buffalo-Bill.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29 — 1.1MB)Before he was known as Buffalo Bill, he was simply William Cody. We all assume he must have some connection…
