Category: Missouri
The Churchill Memorial
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/02/2026-0211-Churchill-Fulton-Memorial-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a building project that involved moving 7000 large stones across the Atlantic Ocean to reconstruct a building that was…
Where the Words Were Delivered
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/02/2026-0210-Churchill-Fulton-Memorial-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us after heard of the phrase, “the iron curtain” to describe the communist countries of eastern Europe during…
Predicting the State of the World For Decades to Come
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/02/2026-0209-Churchill-Fulton-Memorial-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just two months after the Allies won the European theatre of World War II, the leader of Great Britain, Winston…
Where Doctor Training Began
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/02Dec25-AT-Still-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thirty percent of all doctors trained in the U.S. have this distinction. The story of how it all began can…
Turning To a New Occupation
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/01Dec25-AT-Still-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Andrew wanted to be a farmer, but when a drought wiped out his crop, he had thoughts of teaching school. …
One of the Longest and Best Known Acts in the Country
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/13Nov25-The-Baldknobbers-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It had an inauspicious beginning. A variety show held in the basement of city hall that attracted a couple dozen…
The Baldknobbers
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/10/12Nov25-The-Baldknobbers-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They were called the Baldknobbers – a group of vigilantes that roamed the Ozarks dispensing justice as they saw fit. …
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…
Winning An Old West Shootout
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/09May25-Wild-Bill-Hickok-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)John Sellers says the key to winning an old-west shootout was not quickness, but accuracy. And when you take into…
Shooting Over a Bad Debt
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/08May25-Wild-Bill-Hickok-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a movie “western” you might see two gunslingers fire their pistols at each other in the town square. That’s…
Unsettled Scores
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/07May25-Wild-Bill-Hickok-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the Civil War ended, there were still many unsettled scores of course. Towns along the border with North and…
Jim the Wonder Dog
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/24Jan25-Jim-the-Wonder-Dog-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Any betting man or woman would love to know the winners before placing a wager. The people of Marshall, Missouri…
A Dog that Learned Amazing Tricks
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/23Jan25-Jim-the-Wonder-Dog-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people have dogs and some of us have even taught our dogs to do tricks. But Sam had a…
An Excellent Hunting Dog that Became More
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/22Jan25-Jim-the-Wonder-Dog-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It all began quite by accident. A pup mysteriously arrived on a train, addressed to a man who loved to…
Echo Bluff
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/01/06Jan25-Echo-Bluff.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hard to find a road that runs straight for very long around Emminence, Missouri. Perhaps that’s the charm that…
A Place Called Pennytown
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/03Jan25-Penneytown-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Virginia Huston holds a unique distinction. She was the last child born in Pennytown. It’s a fact that holds much…
Establishing a New City
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/02Jan25-Penneytown-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Establishing a new city can take plenty of planning. Now imagine trying to begin that new town when others are…
An Iconic Moment in Presidential Election History
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/08Nov24-Harry-Truman-Election-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s one of the most iconic pictures in presidential election history. A picture of President Harry Truman holding up a…
Harry Truman’s Hopeful Campaign
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/07Nov24-Harry-Truman-Election-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the summer of 1948 Harry Truman was losing the race to return for a second term as president. But…
Expecting a Different Election Outcome
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/06Nov24-Harry-Truman-Election-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the day after the voting had ended and people woke up to find a different person was elected…
