Interviews with Jess Strain, Ed Monroe, and Lucille Wanker by Donald Naiman, 1962-01-01

File — Box: MS 017-06, Folder: MS 017-06-12

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1962 no. 12

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RT 398 F666m 1962 no. 12- 7 Inch Reel Tape and 2 Audio Cassette Tapes

7 index cards - Folklore of the Middle West, 1962, no. 12; Folk-songs - Kansas; Frontier and pioneer life - Kansas; Monroe, Ed; Naiman, Donald; Strain, Jess F.; Wanker, Lucille;Jacobi, Louis T.; Merritt, George S.; Merritt, George W.; Merritt, Madelen; Patterson, Helen; Schwindt, Ava;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Interviews with Jess Strain, Ed Monroe, and Lucille Wanker

Jess F. Strain, the introduction is missing. Recording is difficult to understand.

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:16 - Journey from South Dakota to Cripple Creek, CO in 1894

00:04:54 - Reason for the journey to Cripple Creek

00:07:14 - Cattle drives

00:08:19 - Rattlesnakes

00:10:11 - Arriving in Kansas in 1897

00:11:02 - Feeding cattle

00:12:36 - Bad winters

00:16:58 - Indigenous Americans in the area

00:18:43 - Stalled train in 1911

00:21:38 - Farm equipment

00:31:54 - Difference in wheat, then and now

00:34:58 - Literaries

00:36:30 - Wild rabbit hunts

00:43:03 - Catching frogs

00:47:20 - Catching fish with pitchforks

00:53:13 - Music by Jess F. Strain and Ed Monroe. Recording begins in progress and is of poor quality.

00:53:22 - Song, Vacation in Heaven, piano and fiddle

00:55:47 - Song, Sweet Evalina, piano and fiddle

00:56:56 - Song, Lost Mule, piano and fiddle

00:57:57 - Song, Deavi's Dream, piano and fiddle

00:58:26 - Song, Natchez by the Hill, piano and fiddle

00:59:16 - Song, Comin' down from Denver, piano and fiddle

01:00:11 - Song, Dean's Favorite, piano and fiddle

01:01:01 - Song, Down in the Jailhouse, piano and fiddle

01:02:55 - Song, Cottage Hornpipe, piano and fiddle

01:03:45 - Song, Little Brown Jug, piano and fiddle

01:04:35 - Song, Midnight Waltz, piano and fiddle

01:06:50 - Music by Jess F. Strain and Lucille Wanker.

01:06:54 - Song, Liverpool Hornpipe, piano and fiddle

01:07:35 - Song, Here She Goes, piano and fiddle

01:08:33 - Song, Lost Boy, piano and fiddle

01:09:13 - Song, Come Sunday Mornin', piano and fiddle

01:10:33 - Song, unidentified folk tune, piano and fiddle

01:11:38 - Song, Fox and Hounds, piano and fiddle

01:12:25 - Song, Old Timer, piano and fiddle

01:13:45 - Song, Narragansett Bay, piano and fiddle

01:14:35 - Song, Mollie Shove the Grog Around, piano and fiddle

01:15:37 - Song, unidentified waltz, piano and fiddle

01:16:50 - Song, Lost Horn, piano and fiddle

01:17:58 - Song, unidentified folk tune, piano and fiddle

01:18:44 - Song, unidentified folk tune, piano and fiddle

01:19:36 - Song, Put your Little Foot In, piano and fiddle

01:20:44 - Song, unidentified folk tune, piano and fiddle