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More on Lake Bemidji

Wednesday’s show featured information on the statue of Paul Bunyan and Babe, his trusty blue ox sidekick, on the shores of Lake Bemidji. That’s a…

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Posted in American Countryside Minnesota

Paul & Babe on the Shores of Lake Bemidji

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/02Aug13-Paul-Bunyan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)On the shores of Lake Bemidji stand Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox.  The pair have been immortalized in…

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Paul Bunyan & Babe the Blue Ox

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/01Aug13-Paul-Bunyan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Just about all of us have heard of him and most of us would say he’s just a make believe…

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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…

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Posted in Blog History Missouri Saint Joseph Tourism Travel

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…

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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…

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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. …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The Poisoned President?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/19Jul13-Zachary-Taylor.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Zachary Taylor died in office in 1850, yet his body was exhumed over a century later to determine if his…

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The Wounded Eyewitness

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/18Jul13-Tague-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)James Tague holds an interesting distinction in the assassination of President John F Kenney. Other than the president and Governor…

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A Skeptical Eyewitness

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/17Jul13-Tague-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)We continue our story with James Tague, a man who witnessed the assassination of president Kenney and was wounded by…

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Scenic Route: Witness to an Assassination

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/ScenicRoute-012.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 19:52 — 18.2MB)You may think you know all there is to know about the JFK assassination. But there was one man wounded…

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Share The American Countryside

We’ve been pretty busy lately trying to bring you The American Countryside however you want it, whenever you want it, and wherever you want it….

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Moments After an Assassination…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/16Jul13-Tague-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)The city of Dallas was abuzz with excitement on November 22, 1963 as President Kennedy made a visit to the…

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