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    Identifier

    RT398_F666M_1957_07

    Publication Date

    1-1-1957

    Description

    Interviews with Logan County settlers Mrs. Cassidy, Mrs. W.A. Caswell, and G.N. Luker regarding their experiences homesteading in Logan County, Kansas in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Accounts of conflicts between Indigenous Americans and white settlers are included. The beginning of the recording is poor quality.
    00:00:16 - Mrs. Cassidy, raising cattle in Logan County in 1903
    00:01:02 - Local stores
    00:01:29 - Churches
    00:03:05 - Telephones
    00:03:36 - Farming
    00:05:19 - Blizzards
    00:06:15 - Horse disease
    00:06:43 - Dust storms
    00:08:06 - Native animals
    00:09:30 - Storing wheat and the first elevator
    00:11:00 - Treating sickness and disease outbreaks
    00:12:29 - Schools
    00:14:15 - Prices of common items
    00:15:43 - Experiences with local Romani groups
    00:18:57 - Experiences with hobos
    00:20:45 - Mrs. W.A. Caswell and moving to Logan County in 1888
    00:23:17 - Harboring outlaws
    00:24:50 - Acquiring land
    00:26:06 - Literary societies, dances, and play parties
    00:26:21 - 1899 fire in Oakley, KS
    00:26:54 - Teaching experience and schools in Oakley
    00:30:35 - Raising horses and mechanical advancements
    00:31:35 - G.N. Luker and the story of the John and Lydia German family, killed in a skirmish with Indigenous Americans in Six Mile Gulch in 1874 00:50:12 - Quanah Parker and the Adobe Walls fight
    00:59:27 - Billy Dixon and the Buffalo Wallow fight

    Physical Description

    reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation

    Subject

    Frontier & pioneer life, Rural schools, farming, Dust Bowl Era (1931-1939) Era, 1931-1939, Typhoid fever, Romanies, Sod houses, Russell Springs (Kan.), Crime, Wildfires, Teachers, Fort Hays (Kan.), Indigenous people, Smoky Hill Trail (Colo. & Kan.), Immigrants -- Germany, Fort Wallace (Kan.), Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes -- Oklahoma, Forced Indigenous Removal, 1813-1903, Parker, Quanah, 1845?-1911, Comanche, Dixon, Billy, 1850-1913, Homesteaders

    Rights

    © Fort Hays State University

    Publisher

    Digitized by FHSU Digital Collections

    Comments

    For questions contact ScholarsRepository@fhsu.edu

    Language

    eng

    Interview with Logan County Settlers

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