Interviews with Dora May Pruitt, Charles Miller, Lizzie Johannes, and Helen Johannes Miller, 1965-12-15

File — Box: MS 017-08, Folder: MS 017-08-12

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1965 no. 05

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RT 398 F666m 1965 no. 05 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and 1 Audio Cassette Tape

5 index cards - Buckston, Gerald; Folklore of the Middle West, 1965, No. 5.; Folk-lore - Kansas; Miller, Charles; Pruitt, Dora May;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Interviews with Dora May Pruitt, Charles Miller, Lizzie Johannes, and Helen Johannes Miller

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:00 - Interview with an unidentified woman begins in progress. Life on the frontier as a child.

00:00:48 - Information about her parents and family, and herding cattle as a child

00:01:26 - Interview switches to another unidentified woman speaking about school in 1900

00:05:18 - Description of Rozel, KS and a fire downtown

00:11:29 - Story about the Rozel depot in 1897

00:14:05 - Rozel postmasters

00:17:04 - Butchering hogs

00:19:45 - Literaries. Interview abruptly ends.

00:20:12 - Introduction, interview with Charles Miller by Gerald Buckston of Ransom, KS on December 15, 1965

00:20:43 - Earliest memories from 1894 and his uncles homesteading in Hamilton County, KS

00:23:28 - Grandfather's farm

00:27:19 - Early transportation

00:28:20 - The Cuban War. Interview cuts off.

00:28:52 - Interview with Lizzie Johannes of Ransom, KS. Moving to Kansas at 14 years old in 1887

00:30:08 - Moving to a sod house after her marriage in 1893 and then moving to Ransom in 1910

00:30:51 - Life on the prairie

00:32:26 - Introduction to the preceding interview

00:32:43 - Introduction, interview with Helen Johannes Miller of Ransom, KS by Gerald Buckston on December 15, 1965

00:33:03 - Grandparents moving to the United States from Switzerland and their baby dying on the train to Missouri

00:34:31 - Moving to Ness County, KS in 1887 and life on the prairie

00:35:43 - Grandpa getting caught in a storm

00:36:24 - More about life on the prairie: Social life, heating fuel, schools, and games played

00:39:57 - Civil War Bushwhackers

00:41:40 - Harsh winters

00:42:58 - Introduction, Charles Miller of Ransom, KS by Gerald Buckston on December 15, 1965

00:43:16 - Memories of his father and his revival meetings as a Methodist preacher

00:44:56 - Father's preaching circuit

00:46:03 - Camp meetings

00:47:08 - Literary society