Posted in American Countryside Arkansas

Returning Civil War Prisoners to Home

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/06/25Jun25-Sultana-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As the Civil War drew to a close in April of 1865, there was a massive job to return prisoners…

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Posted in American Countryside Oklahoma

The World’s Greatest Athlete

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/06/24Jun25-Jim-Thorpe-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1912 he was proclaimed the world’s greatest athlete and some of his Olympic records from that year still stood…

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Posted in American Countryside Oklahoma

The Rise of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School Football Team

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/06/23Jun25-Jim-Thorpe-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of historically great collegiate football programs, names like Notre Dame, Penn State and Alabama might come to…

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois

The Story of the Spencer Rifle at the Illinois Military Museum

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/06/20Jun25-Illinois-Military-Museum-Spencer-Rifle.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine you had invented a new type of rifle that could be helpful to the U.S. military.  How would you…

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Posted in American Countryside Arizona

The Tombstone Courthouse

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/06/19Jun25-Tombstone-Courthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the 1880s, stagecoaches brought dozens of people each day to a boom town called Tombstone.  But it was a…

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Posted in American Countryside Arizona

Dig a Grave When You Get There

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/06/18Jun25-Tombstone-Courthouse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When this man set out to find his fortune he was told he’d need to dig his grave when he…

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Posted in American Countryside 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…

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Posted in American Countryside Tennessee

The Memphis City Park – Shelby Farm

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/06/16Jun25-Memphis-City-Park-Shelby-Farms.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This city park is over five times the size of Central Park in New York City.  People not only come…

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Posted in American Countryside Arkansas

Sawdust City, Arkansas

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/06/13Jun25-Sawdust-City-Arkansas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This town was founded on sawdust – in some cases quite literally.  While the mill and the homes are gone,…

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Posted in American Countryside Arkansas

The Parkin Archeological Park

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/06/12Jun25-Parkin-Archeological-State-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)At the Parkin Archeological Park in Arkansas you can see a piece of wood that is believed to be a…

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Posted in American Countryside Arkansas

A Preserved Community Near Memphis

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/06/11Jun25-Parkin-Archeological-State-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Long before European explorers first arrived in North America, Native American villages dotted the landscape of present day Arkansas.  One…

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Posted in American Countryside California

The Calavaras County Frog Jumpin’ Contest

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/06/10Jun25-Calavaras-County-Jumpin-Frog-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Each May in Angels Camp, California, thousands of people will come to witness a contest that could pay a winner…

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Posted in American Countryside California

A Trip to Angels Camp That Launched a Career

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/06/09Jun25-Calavaras-County-Jumpin-Frog-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1865 Mark Twain came to Angels Camp, California.  A tale he heard, or perhaps one he made up, became…

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Posted in American Countryside Texas

The Old Stone Fort

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/06Jun25-Old-Stone-Fort.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s known as the Old Stone Fort, but using the tern “fort” is perhaps a bit liberal.  While the structure…

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Posted in American Countryside California

The Yo-Yo Museum

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/05Jun25-YoYo-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When a small store in Chico, California decided to have some fun and create a local yo yo contest, they…

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Posted in American Countryside California

A Crane for a Yo-Yo

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/04Jun25-YoYo-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a yo you so large you needed a crane to lift it.  That’s exactly what this man created and…

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Posted in American Countryside California

A Museum for a Toy

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/03Jun25-YoYo-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all seen them.  Many of us played with them as a toy.  Perhaps you didn’t know it’s origin and…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa

The Smell Coming From the Place

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/02Jun25-Cedar-Rapids-General-Mills.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a smell coming from the place Pete works.  It’s an odor that actually attracts rather than repels people, for…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

When Cattle Ranchers and Sheep Herders Clashed

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/30May25-Meeker-Colorado-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was a time when cattle ranchers and sheep herders clashed, sometimes violently, in the western U.S.  This town saw…

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Posted in American Countryside Colorado

When a Way of Life Was Changed Forever

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/29May25-Meeker-Colorado-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the fall of 1879, an unfortunate set of events led to a clash between Native Americans and white settlers…

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