One of America's longest railroad strikes took place in The Ozarks and you've probably never heard about it. Maybe privatizing public goods isn't the best idea. We also read a couple listener emails

We look at corn cob pipes, from their patenting in the northern Missouri Ozarks, to a small day to day look at a former factory in Everton, Arkansas

The life story of B. Dean Brown and the Branson Cross

We discuss the New York Times article that was released today about that racist intentional community near Ravenden, Arkansas that's trying to expand into Missouri and across elsewhere in the South

The story of a Bigfoot-type monster supposedly near War Eagle, Arkansas

In a podcast first, we have guests in the wonderful Beyond the Breakers podcast. Normally ones to focus on shipwrecks and maritime disasters, we pull them onto land and discuss one of the wackiest incidents in Springfield, Missouri history, The Cobra Scare.

The tale of a vegetarian religious sect (called the Grass Eaters by locals, accidentally left out of the script) that set up shop in the pre-Civil War rural Arkansas Ozarks.

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We discuss the history of Damascus, Arkansas and the time they got in trouble for issuing too many speed tickets

This episode involves a dark and heavy topic, with our first coverage of a lynching in The Ozarks. The primary focus this week is the life Walter Majors, an African American inventor from Springfield, Missouri, but we also discuss the Easter Lynchings of 1906, one of countless lynchings in The Ozarks between 1890-1910, and its lasting impact on the African American community in Springfield and Springfield as a city from then to now

The story of music festival at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in.. Sedalia of all places?