Episodios

  • Daniel Boone and the Settling of Kentucky
    Jul 6 2025

    Daniel Boone, the man who would be the template for the American Frontiersman, travels through the Cumberland Gap to settle the land of Kentucky. Survival and determination help the little settlement hold out against the threat of extermination.

    This is Part One of Two.

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    14 m
  • Extra: What you didn't know about Benjamin Franklin
    Jul 4 2025

    For the Fourth of July a few facts about an amazing figure in Americana- Ben Franklin. Happy Fourth!

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    10 m
  • Betsy Ross and Washington's Teeth: American Folklore
    Jun 29 2025

    Some very American folklore as we near the Fourth: Betsy Ross being visited by Washington and asked to design a flag for the new nation, and the very strange story of General Washington and his false teeth.

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    14 m
  • Pecos Bill: The Cowboy that cowboys talked about
    Jun 22 2025

    We can't have American Folklore with cowboys- and we can't have cowboys without Pecos Bill!

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    15 m
  • Extra: Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer - 1888
    Jun 18 2025

    This is a great reading of the poem from Librivox- too good not to share.

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    4 m
  • Extra: A Little Folklore about Baseball
    Jun 18 2025

    A few folk stories about baseball!

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    8 m
  • Pretty Polly- A Murder Ballad
    Jun 15 2025

    A young girl lured into the woods...

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    10 m
  • Bass Reeves: A Western Lawman (Maybe the inspiration for The Lone Ranger)
    Jun 8 2025

    An African-American lawman out west, and possibly the inspiration for The Lone Ranger.

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    16 m