Category: Arkansas
Making Our Own Weapons
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/04Feb25-Springfield-Armory-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the colonies declared there independence from England, they had to fight a war using guns mostly made in other…
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/03Feb25-Eureka-Springs-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a seven story hotel in which each floor is a ground floor. We’ll take you to the town where…
A Place Where Water is More Than Water
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/31Jan25-Eureka-Springs-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you think water is just water, then don’t tell the folks in this small town, because it’s the water…
Home of the Bowie Knife
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/10Apr24-Bowie-Knife.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes people will travel a long way to get exactly the item they desire. That was the case for this…
Historic Washington, Arkansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/09Apr24-Historic-Washington-Arkansas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As the city of Washington, D.C. was growing into its role as the nation’s capital, another city of Washington was…
The Haircut Heard Around the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/27Mar24-Elvis-Barbershop-Ft-Smith-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Next to Delilah’s shearing of strongman Samson, it’s perhaps the most famous haircut in history. Many young ladies wondered if…
Elvis Joins the Army
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/26Mar24-Elvis-Barbershop-Ft-Smith-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)From 1958 to 1960, Elvis Pressley was part of the active military. He spent time at Ft. Hood, Texas and…
Antarctic Scientists and Fort Smith, Arkansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/09Feb23-US-Marshal-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Who makes sure that the scientists of Antarctica are accountable to the law? It may sound like a strange question,…
A Museum Dedicated to Federal Law Enforcement
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/08Feb23-US-Marshal-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are the longest tenured federal law enforcement group in the United States. Their important work has played a critical…
One Historic Place
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/19Dec23-Miss-Lauras-Brothel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It may be one of the most unique businesses to ever be placed on the National Register of Historic Places. …
Laura’s Little Business in Ft. Smith
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/18Dec23-Miss-Lauras-Brothel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Laura Ziegler came to Ft. Smith, Arkansas from Vermont. She was only in this city for about a decade, then…
Same Old Sam
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/18Jan23-Sam-Walton-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was one of the wealthiest men in America. Yet almost everyone that ever worked with him would tell you…
Sam’s Mismatched Floor Tiles
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/17Jan23-Sam-Walton-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It you walked into a business that had just remodeled its space and noticed the floor tiles did not match,…
Losing a Lease that Led to Success
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/16Jan23-Sam-Walton-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s said, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” Perhaps that’s how Sam should have regarded the fact that his…
The Turpentine Wildlife Refuge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/04Jan22-Turpentine-Wildlife-Refuge-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lots of people come to Eureka Springs, Arkansas every year to enjoy the Ozark setting and attractions. One of the…
A Trailer Full of Tigers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/03Jan22-Turpentine-Wildlife-Refuge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Occasionally you hear of a large truckload of cattle or hogs that is stranded on the highway and other trucks…
The Arkansas Spring Water From Alaska?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/14Dec21-Blue-Springs-Heritage-Center-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Natural springs are a thing of beauty and also of mystery. Attempts to find the source of this spring have…
Blue Spring Heritage Center
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/13Dec21-Blue-Springs-Heritage-Center-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just outside of Eureka Springs, Arkansas you will find one of the largest natural springs in the area. It’s captivating…
Where the Delta Meets the Ozarks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/17Mar21-Powhatan-Arkansas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we welcome our listeners in southern MO and northern AR on 92.3 KSAR. Folks there may know of a…
Remembering Powhatan, Arkansas
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/16Mar21-Powhatan-Arkansas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Powhatan, Arkansas. However, this was once a thriving city with steamboat traffic…
