Decatur County Kansas Folklore, 1958-06-30

File — Box: MS 017-02, Folder: MS 017-02-09

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1958 no. 04

Staff Only

RT 398 F666m 1958 no. 04 - 7 inch Reel Tape and 3 Audio Cassette Tapes

17 index cards - Addleman, D.; Brown, Jacob; Decatur County, Kansas - History; Feely, Ura; Folk-songs--Kansas; Folklore of the Middle West, 1958, No. 4.; Frontier and pioneer life--Kansas; Hall, Don; McLeod, Albert; McLeod, Alta; Rohan, Charles; Scott, Bryon, Mrs.; Sloan, Lila Fay; Stacey, Raymond (6); Van Gundy, Elmer; Van Schuetz, Anna; Wylie, Bertha G.;

Typed and handwritten notes.

An interview with several persons from Decatur County Kansas relating old stories, songs, poems, and folklore. Much of the recording is unintelligible or missing. Side two suffers from various recording and speed issues.

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:38 - Mr. Bryon C. Scott

00:00:51 - Mary Ann (song)

00:01:43 - Copper Head

00:03:04 - Cattle Rustler

00:04:36 - Thanksgiving

00:06:07 - Elmer Van Grundy

00:06:54 - Song

00:08:13 - School Building

00:11:27 - Copper-toed shoes

00:13:02 - Poem: That Land Where They Never Grow Old

00:15:25 - Mr. & Mrs. Rohan

00:16:15 - Kansas Towns of Jackson, Slab City, and Clinton

00:20:13 - Casper - Wheeler Fight

00:23:08 - Jacob A. Brown

00:24:02 - Burned Wagon at Lyle, KS

00:29:35 - Experience as a teacher

00:35:40 - Early Towns that have disappeared

00:42:45 - Organizing a school at Norcatur, KS

00:46:45 - D.G. Addleman

00:47:40 - Settling Oberlin, KS

00:50:26 - Entertainment

00:52:52 - Availability of game and wildlife

00:54:43 - Ura Feely

00:55:08 - The Sod Schoolhouse

00:56:13 - Kansas Land (verses 1 & 2 are missing from the recording)

00:56:42 - Miller boy

00:57:21 - Side Two intro

00:58:35 - "Madame"

01:01:36 - Ms. Lila Sloan translation of "Madame"

01:04:28 - Don Hall

01:04:49 - Indigenous American burial mound south of Russell, KS

01:08:00 - Bertha Grace Wylie

01:08:37 - Tom Twist (incomplete)

01:12:01 - Theology in the Quarters (incomplete)

01:13:32 - Serenade to Spring (incomplete)

01:15:18 - The Old Violin (incomplete)

01:17:50 - Alta & Albert McLeod and Anna Van Schuetz

01:18:38 - Moving to Kansas and crossing a flooded river in 1898

01:23:02 - Anna Van Schuetz. The recording abruptly ends after the introduction