T.W. Wells Lecture - July 21 and 24, 1961, 1961-07-21

File — Box: MS 017-05, Folder: MS 017-05-09

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1961 no. 04

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RT 398 F666m 1961 no. 04 - 2 Audio Cassette Tapes

3 index cards - Folklore - Kansas; Folklore of the Middle West, 1961, no. 4; Frontier and pioneer life - Kansas; Wells, Thornton Walton;

Typed and handwritten notes.

An recording of a lecture given by Thornton Walton Wells, former school superintendent of Russell County Schools, to Samuel Sackett's folklore class at Fort Hays Kansas State College on July 21 and 24, 1961.

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:00 - Poor quality recording.

00:00:32 - Background and introduction

00:02:14 - Pilot Rock and wagon trains

00:04:18 - Folklore and swearing

00:07:30 - How he quit swearing

00:08:37 - Monosyllabic language as folklore

00:10:56 - Chinch bugs in 1893

00:14:21 - Prairie fires and their victims

00:18:36 - "Old" in language

00:19:51 - More on chintz bugs

00:21:04 - Witching for water

00:28:20 - The library nobody could use

00:34:08 - Bedbugs

00:36:40 - Communal aid in times of distress

00:39:50 - Mad dog threat

00:44:05 - Mad hog

00:46:30 - Head lice

00:50:45 - Indigenous American graves near Pilot Rock

00:53:04 - Rattlesnakes

00:56:46 - How a slave won his freedom

00:59:24 - July 24, 1961 lecture. This part of the recording is of a lower quality

01:00:00 - Blizzard of 1886

01:02:38 - Language of folklore

01:06:37 - Thrashing machine and wheat cutting

01:14:12 - Chinch bugs, bedbugs, flies, lice, and other pests

01:20:08 - How a slave won his freedom with an ear of corn

01:25:53 - Chinch bugs of 1893

01:29:53 - Introduction of Russian Thistles to the area

Audio cuts off. The remainder of the tape is missing.