Interview with Gus Hadwigger, 1957-01-01

RT 398 F666m 1957 no. 5 - 7 inch Reel Tape, and 1 Audio Cassette Tape

7 Index Cards - Cherokee Outlet, Oklahoma; Folklore of the Middle West, 1957, no. 5; Frontier and pioneer life--Oklahoma; Hadwiger, Gus; Oklahoma--History; Pond Creek, Kansas--History; Woods County, Oklahoma--History;

Typed and handwritten notes.

An interview with Gus Hadwiger, a law enforcement officer, homesteader, and participant in Indigenous American Removal in Oklahoma in the late 1800s.

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository - Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:16 - Time as a marshal

00:02:54 - Train and bank robberies

00:14:39 - Dalton Gang

00:17:14 - Jaeger and Black gang

00:27:09 - Horse thieves

00:28:22 - Alva

00:30:34 - Army enlistment and deployment to the Philippines

00:30:05 - School house arsonist

00:32:18 - Chicken story

00:33:19 - Best rifleman in Oklahoma

00:34:30 - Arrival of the railroad and end of cow punching

00:35:30 - Move to Colorado

00:36:05 - Economic Panic and opening of Oklahoma Territory

00:39:42 - Cyclone

00:43:11 - Cherokee Run