Ep. 177 - The Old Ozarks - The Brogues and Brogans of the Irish Wilderness (S1: E6)
Welcome to the Old Ozarks with Dr. Brooks Blevins...
Every now and then, a name on a map leads you down a rabbit hole of forgotten history. That’s what happened when I stumbled across a curious spot in southeastern Missouri referred to as the Irish Wilderness. The phrase (something pulled from the pages of a ghost story) is a little-known, true-life tale of Irish immigrants, Catholic dreams, and Civil War disappearance deep in the Ozark hills.
In this episode, I explore how an ambitious Irish priest tried to build a haven for his famine-fleeing countrymen in the untamed backwoods between the…
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