Interview with Lottie and Willard N. Mills, Edward Dodge, and Raymond Bower, 1960-07-28

RT 398 F666m 1960 no. 13 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and 1 Audio Cassette Tape

10 index cards - Anderson, Grandpa; Bierly, Zula; Bower, Raymond; Dodge, Edward; Folklore of the Middle West, 1960, no. 13; Folk-songs; Frontier and pioneer life - Kansas; Higgins, Lucille; Kansas--History; Mills, Lottie; Mills, Willard;

Typed and handwritten notes.

An interview with Lottie and Willard N. Mills, Edward Dodge, and Raymond Bower containing various songs, stories, and reminiscences.

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:25 - Lottie Mills, Song, Only Common Bill

00:01:39 - Willard Mills, Song, Only Common Bill (alternate tune)

00:02:52 - Lottie Mills, Song, I'll Make a Cake For Charlie

00:03:19 - Song, My Mother Will Buy Me A Rubber Dolly

00:04:21 - Song, The Baggage Coach

00:07:23 - Song, Samson and the mule

00:08:13 - Willard Mills, song, Grandfather's Clock

00:08:45 - Lottie Mills, childhood games

00:10:33 - Willard Mills, song, Oh How He Lied

00:12:00 - Edward Dodge, introduction. This interview is transcribed.

00:12:13 - Murder of the Haufmaster girl south of Great Bend and subsequent hanging of the killer

00:16:19 - Lynching and dragging of a Black man in Great Bend

00:19:11 - Brothers and sisters

00:20:03 - Early Great Bend

00:22:55 - First home in Great Bend

00:24:29 - Working cattle

00:25:47 - Christmas customs

00:27:38 - Experience with Indigenous Americans

00:29:04 - Mouse in the molasses

00:31:09 - Oxen collared like horses

00:33:07 - Unknown man, recitation, the story of the farmer

00:34:50 - Recitation, The Little Boy's Soliloquy

00:35:39 - Recitation, Three Boys Arguing

00:36:15 - Recitation, The 500-word Theme

00:37:06 - Song, The Old Armchair

00:38:20 - Song, Why I Love and Adore Jesus

00:41:15 - Raymond Bower, introduction. This interview is transcribed

00:41:34 - Biographical information

00:42:35 - Stories told to Mr. Bower by Jules Van Meter

00:43:10 - Experience with the Pawnee Bob in about 1874

00:44:47 - Shooting a mouse off a shelf in 1875

00:45:45 - Haunting at Gray's Draw

00:48:46 - Story of William Gibbon

00:49:36 - Story of Squire "Hankie" Oliver, Justice of the Peace for Norton County

00:50:39 - Story of Grose Page, Norton cattle buyer