Category: Missouri
Earning the Title of Miss America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/11Sep13-Miss-America-Shelby-Ringdahl-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)A new Miss America will be crowned this weekend. Of course only one person can earn that title, while everyone…
From the Hardwood to Another Competition
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/10Sep13-Miss-America-Shelby-Ringdahl-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)I first became acquainted with Shelby Ringdahl when she played basketball at Columbia Rock Bridge High School, a team which…
Taking Care of Unordinary Pets
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/28Aug13-National-Tiger-Sanctuary-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Rob Patrick has to help feed his pets. It takes about 100,000 pounds of raw meat a year. Of course…
A Home for Big Cats
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/27Aug13-National-Tiger-Sanctuary-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Animal shelters may care for unwanted cats. But when it comes to these kind of cats, it takes a special…
Little House on the Prairie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/21Aug13-Laura-Ingalls-Wilder.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It’s hard to imagine it happened by chance–8 books and a 10 year television series–all based on one young pioneer…
The Battle of the Hemp Bales
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/19Aug13-Battle-of-the-Hemp-Bales.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)The bullet holes still scar the inside and outside of this home, a place that was a hospital during a…
A Nice Place Called Peculiar
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/05Aug13-Peculiar-Missouri.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Not all of us can live in a normal place. While most of the nation resides in cities that are…
Native American Portraits
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/31Jul13-St-Joseph-Native-American-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What on the surface may appear to be just a bunch of paintings of important Native American leaders, is actually…
Visiting St. Joseph, Mo.
We’ve spent a lot of time in historic St. Joseph, Missouri, over the past week. If any of our shows piqued your interested and have…
Fashion from Three Hundred Years Ago
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/30Jul13-St-Joseph-Native-American-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)You may believe the fashions of two hundred and three hundred years ago was drab and uninspiring. Come to this…
Adding to the Show-Me State
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/29Jul13-St-Joseph-Native-American-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)When the state of Missouri was first established, it was missing what is today its northwest corner of six counties. …
Civil War Deaths Off the Battlefield
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/26Jul13-Civil-War-Medicine-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Many soldiers died in the Civil War to things uncommon today. Simple adjustments in sanitation and cleanliness were a big part…
Raising the Civil War Death Toll
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/25Jul13-Civil-War-Medicine-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)In recent years, the casualty estimates from the Civil War have been raised. Joe Houts says there’s a good reason for…
Medicine in the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/24Jul13-Civil-War-Medicine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Most of us would do good just to know the name of our great, great grandfather. Joe Houts not only knows…
History’s First House Flipper?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/23Jul13-William-Wyeth-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Imagine building a grand, castle-like home for your wife, only to have her grow tired of it just a few…
The St. Joe Seven: Great Experiences In One of the Midwest’s Most Historic Towns
All this week, The American Countryside is in St. Joseph, Missouri. I’ve been around St. Joe for most of my life and here are seven…
Video: St. Joe’s Early Entrepreneur
The latest American Countryside video features St. Joseph, Missouri, and one of its early entrepreneurs. William Wyeth helped outfit settlers as they headed west from…
St. Joseph’s Early Entrepreneur
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/22Jul13-William-Wyeth-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Today we begin a series from St. Joseph, MO…the city many know as the place the Pony Express began and…
Where the Delta Meets the Ozarks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/24Jun13-Powhatan.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Powhatan, Ark., is a once-thriving city, now mostly a ghost town. But its buildings have been restored and the stories…
Seven Great FREE Places to Visit with the Family this Summer
Here are seven places my family and I have discovered in the American Countryside listening area that are not only fun to visit, but also…
