Category: Missouri
Dick’s Five and Ten
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/10/2026-1016-Dicks-Five-and-Ten-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This is the type of store you can get lost in. Not because the layout is a maze, but rather…
Succeeding For Decades
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/10/2026-1015-Dicks-Five-and-Ten-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)An average Wal-Mart SuperCenter has 140,000 items. Steve Hartley runs a store much smaller in size, yet carries over 75,000…
A Prospering Business in Branson
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/10/2026-1014-Dicks-Five-and-Ten-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You might think Steve is operating a business that died long ago. After all, almost all the other similar stores…
Throwing Cow Pies
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/08/2026-0828-Sedalia-Cow-Pies.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us have heard of cow chip throwing contests. Maybe you’ve even been a part of one. The novelty…
The Changing Routes of the Cattle Market
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/08/2026-0827-Sedalia-Cattle-Drive-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Maybe you once watched old shows like Rawhide and Gunsmoke. Those shows depicted cattle drives in the late 1800s. What…
Moving Cattle to Texas
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/08/2026-0826-Sedalia-Cattle-Drive-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the days just after the Civil War there was a large financial incentive to move cattle from Texas to…
The Route 66 Neon Park
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/06/2026-0703-Route-66-Neon-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This is the 100th anniversary of Route 66 and that has many people traveling the old route and reliving its…
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…
