Category: American Countryside
Civil War Deaths Off the Battlefield
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/26Jul13-Civil-War-Medicine-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Many soldiers died in the Civil War to things uncommon today. Simple adjustments in sanitation and cleanliness were a big part…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Gettysburg Week: Guiding Us Through History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/04Jul13-Gettysburg-Guide.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)He’s shared his knowledge with joint chiefs of staff, ambassadors and other high ranking government officials. But when you lead…
Gettysburg Week: The Man Behind the “Charge”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/03Jul13-Gettysburg-Pickett.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)He is perhaps the most famous name to fight at the battle of Gettysburg. His leadership on the battlefield has…
Gettysburg Week: What a Way to Spend Retirement
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/02Jul13-Gettysburg-Burns.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Imagine hitting the age to retire and then deciding to go volunteer for the army. That is what John Burns…
Gettysburg Week: The General (Most of) America Forgot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/01Jul13-Gettysburg-Meade.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)In the three days leading up to Indpendence Day, 1863, Americans waged the greatest of battles against one another at…