The Kingdom of Callaway: That Time One Missouri County (Sort Of, Maybe) Became An Independent Nation
About this episode
The episode explores the story of a Missouri county that negotiated a peace treaty during the Civil War, becoming known as 'The Kingdom of Callaway.'
Despite the misleading name, the U.S. "Civil War" was anything but. As North fought South, this short-lived, bloody conflict fundamentally shifted the course of the country. Yet if you go just a bit further west to Missouri, you'll encounter a story history largely forgot: amid the chaos, a tiny county in Missouri succesfully negotiated something very much like a peace treaty with a sovereign nation. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max discover why some historians believe this one patch of Missouri became, for a time, "The Kingdom of Callaway." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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