Interview with Kansas homesteaders, 1963-11-12

File — Box: MS 017-07, Folder: MS 017-07-15

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1963 no. 06

Staff Only

RT 398 F666m 1963 no. 06 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and 1 Audio Cassette Tape

3 index cards - Cooke, Ronald G.; Folklore of the Middle West, 1963, no. 6; Frontier and pioneer life - Kansas;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Interview with Kansas homesteaders. Interview begins with a woman speaking over a man.

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:20 - Troubles encountered on a cattle drive

00:06:45 - Recipe and process for wild grape wine

00:09:15 - Bootleggers

00:11:10 - Booger Red

00:12:38 - More stories about bootleggers

00:19:04 - Stagecoach routes and towns along those routes

00:21:24 - Plum bush Christmas tree

00:22:11 - Tornado story

00:28:05 - Story about a cow after a snow storm

00:28:30 - Tornado story

00:30:08 - Stories an old barber would tell

00:32:08 - Bill Horn

00:35:12 - Halloween and tic-tacking

00:36:38 - Playing tricks on Mr. and Mrs. Palmer

00:38:08 - Shivarees

00:40:34 - Encounters with Indigenous Americans

00:42:50 - Flowerpot Mound and Pawnee Rock

00:44:56 - Uncle Henry builds the first house in Dodge City

00:47:50 - Bachelor life on the prairie

00:54:05 - Prairie Dog John

01:01:22 - Early Aetna

01:06:42 - Coyote hunts

01:07:33 - Racoon hunts

01:09:11 - Funeral customs during the 1918 influenza epidemic

01:12:03 - The Moore family

01:15:05 - Superstitions

01:17:21 - Keyno Armstrong, an old stage driver and newspaperman in Lake City

01:19:05 - Stories about Uncle Fred

01:21:08 - Peace treaty in 1862 with Indigenous Americans