Category: Missouri
The Biggest Race of Its Kind
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/09/19Sept17-Missouri-River-340-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a race that might last over three days and in that time, you may not sleep at all, or…
Days of Sprinting
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/09/18Sept17-Missouri-River-340-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Folks in Clinton, Missouri know there is quite a racer in their midst, a man who’s sprint was not measured…
The Top Mounted Military Man in the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/08Sep17-Nathan-Boone-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before their was a U.S. cavalry, this man was noted to be the top mounted military man in the nation. …
The Baby of the Boone Family
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/07Sep17-Nathan-Boone-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us remember the frontiersman and explorer, Daniel Boone from our history books. However, we may not be familiar…
British Soldiers Residing in the US
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/06Sep17-Lathrop-Missouri-Mules-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a small U.S. farm town with British soldiers who had residences there. No, we are not talking about the…
The Mule Capital of the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/05Sep17-Lathrop-Missouri-Mules-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was once the mule capital of the world. You can still find some mules there and if you go…
When The Teeth Are The Main Attraction
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/04Sep17-Strongman-Steve.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every dentist that has ever advised not to crush ice or hard candy with one’s teeth will not want to…
Mules in World War I
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/01Sep17-World-War-I-Mules-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)My grandfather was born in 1903 and remembered the nation’s fight to win World War I. In fact, my grandfather…
A Coveted Tool to Defeat the Enemy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/31Aug17-World-War-I-Mules-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Even before the United States entered World War I, American farms were important in helping the allies win the conflict. …
Stories of a Pioneer Girl Growing Up
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/30Aug17-Laura-Ingels-Wilder-Home-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is hard to imagine it happened mostly by accident…eight books and a ten year television series all based on…
Childhood Stories
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/29Aug17-Laura-Ingels-Wilder-Home-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)She never set out to become a famous author…she was simply writing down some stories from her childhood. But those…
Hotel Rooms for $11 A Night
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/18Aug17-Wagon-Wheel-Motel.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Connie Echols admits she was crazy when she purchased the business just down the street. She had no idea what…
A Grand Mansion For the Family
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/07/28Jul17-Hunter-Dawson-Home.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)In the days just ahead of the Civil War, one prominent young lady in New Madrid, Missouri built a grand…
Going to Where the Need Is
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/20Jun17-Eleos-Coffee-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For Rich Casebolt it’s always been about going to where the need is, not waiting for the need to come…
Coffee That Helps Fill a Need
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/19Jun17-Eleos-Coffee-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A lot of people enjoy a good cup of coffee every morning, but here it was hard to find such…
An Unbelievable Story
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/16Jun17-Missouri-State-Prison-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a story that will probably make you mad, make you laugh and shake your head AND a story you’ll…
Prison Warden: Balancing Act
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/15Jun17-Missouri-State-Prison-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a job that can be a real balancing act. A place where you have to manage the best and…
The Path of a Heavyweight Champion
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/14Jun17-Missouri-State-Prison-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When this man became heavy weight champion of the world, one of the first men he thanked was a prison…
The Largest Prison in the Nation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/13Jun17-Missouri-State-Prison-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was once the largest prison in the nation and quite possibly the world. A place housing criminals from a…
Three Decades in a Supermax Prison
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/12Jun17-Missouri-State-Prison-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This week we focus on a man who spent over three decades of his life in a SuperMax state prison…
