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Roy Bean’s Jersey Lilly
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/26May16-Judge-Roy-Bean-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Housing a bar and a courtroom in the same location may seem a bit odd today. It was unusual back…
The Judge ‘West of the Pecos’
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The Law of Langtry
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The Adventures of Roy Bean
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/23May16-Judge-Roy-Bean-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Roy Bean found a steady job supplying railroad work camps. Then he discovered something rail workers really wanted…something to drink…
The Farmer’s Branch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/20May16-Farmers-Branch.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The name Farmer’s Branch sums up the beginning of this place. cheap nfl jerseys A rich ag community along a north…
The Kickapoo Attack at Fort Lancaster
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/19May16-Fort-Lancaster-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You might think of a “fort” as a place with high, secure walls that could repel an attack. The reality…
An Abandoned Fort in the Civil War
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The Army’s Camel Train
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Fort Lancaster, Texas
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Missouri Star Quilt
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/13May16-Missouri-Star-Quilt-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a nice sunny day in Hamilton, Missouri, with a population of not even 2000, but unlike a lot of…
Small Town – Big Quilt
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Retrieving a Boot – In Front of 80,000
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Helping Train a Well-known Horse
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Moore’s Creek
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/09May16-Moores-Creek.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It is a small bridge over a small creek. It was a big victory in an even larger war…
All Kinds of Currencies
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/04/06May16-Multiple-Currencies.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One, five, ten, twenty? Now imagine there were more denominations and dozens of different types of bills in circulation. What…
Offering a Blank Check for a Cabin
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President Roosevelt’s Favorite Song – Why it Matters!
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My Western Home – A Poem You Know!
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The Most Dangerous Route the Mail Ever Took
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Hijacked to America
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