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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The Spook Light

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/30Oct24-Spook-Light-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)People like to have answers…and perhaps that’s what makes this phenomena so interesting…there seems to be no explaining it.  So…

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A Story With World-Wide Fame

https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/29Oct24-Spook-Light-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I don’t care for stories about evil and gruesomeness at Halloween, yet a spooky tale may be in order.  For…

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A Strange Log Cabin

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/11Sep24-St-Genevieve-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all seen a log cabin.  Such structures were the norm for many Americans early in the country’s history.  But…

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Missouri’s Oldest Town

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/08/10Sep24-St-Genevieve-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When these French Catholics learned that the British Protestants had taken over, they weren’t pleased.  It may be the reason…

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When the Circuses Came to Town

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/26Jul24-William-Preston-Hall-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lancaster, Missouri is not a big town, but in the 1920s, the circuses came to town.  And yes, I did…

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The Horse King of the World

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/25Jul24-William-Preston-Hall-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some called him the Horse King of the World.  It was fitting title for a man who literally bought and…

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William Preston Hall

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/07/24Jul24-William-Preston-Hall-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)William Preston Hall lost both of his parents by the age of 15.  He worked hard to make a living…

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Leaving a Favorable Impression

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/22Apr24-Brookfield-John-WIlkes-Booth-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Everyone knows John Wilkes Booth as the assassin of President Lincoln.  However, before his deadly deed in April 1865, he…

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