http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/05/29May20-Buffalo-Bill-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the eve of Word War I, the European portion of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show quickly found their operation…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/22Apr20-Spanish-Flu-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Jonathan Casey reads a lot of letters.  Most of the letters are over a century old, but they are very…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/21Apr20-Spanish-Flu-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over a century ago the world was struggling against what we call the Spanish flu.  However, the disease probably didn’t…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/04/20Apr20-Spanish-Flu-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We are still traveling the countryside…although today’s interview was done by phone, a necessity of our current times.  We look…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/16Dec16-World-War-I-Christmas-Truce-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For parts of five years, opposing soldiers dug into trenches all across Europe.  World War I would claim the lives…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/15Dec16-World-War-I-Christmas-Truce-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Christmas is not only a time for remembering the birth of Jesus, but it’s also a time when many of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/14Dec16-World-War-I-Christmas-Truce-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)1914 marked the beginning of a war unlike anything the world had ever seen.  Soon thousands of troops had amassed…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/27Jun14-World-War-I-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s difficult for many of us to name many specific battles or events in World War I.  We may have…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/26Jun14-World-War-I-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some say the event that began the first World War occurred on June 28, 1914…a century ago.  Today we take…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/25Jun14-World-War-I-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This week marks 100 years since the world faced its first global conflict.  It was a war that would engulf…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/28Jan14-World-War-I-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the World War I museum and Liberty Memorial were dedicated in 1926 by President Calvin Coolidge, it’s said he…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/27Jan14-World-War-I-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Ask most Americans who their nation fought in World War II and they’ll tell you Nazi Germany and Japan.  Ask…