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Identifier
RT398_F666m_1970_02
Publication Date
3-20-1970
Description
Interviews with Nellie Holtzinger, Alois B. Engel, Mildred Philip, and Ward Philip.
00:00:00 - Introduction. Tape has been recorded over loud music and so the introduction is difficult to understand.
00:00:33 - Interview with Nellie Holtzinger begins in progress. Life in early Ellis County.
00:01:38 - Prairie fires
00:03:59 - Raising animals, making sausage, food, and provisions
00:06:14 - Get-togethers, entertainment, and Christmas
00:07:01 - School, games, and Christmas
00:09:36 - Interview with Slois B. Engel of Ellis, KS begins in progress
00:09:39 - Rodeo and rattlesnakes
00:14:22 - Kenneth Engel on his motivations for recording these interviews
00:17:41 - Tuttle Ranch near McCracken and "How Charlie Came to Die"
00:22:43 - Story about a man who hanged himself [graphic content]
00:26:39 - Ancestors coming from Russia to America
00:31:10 - Interview with Mildred Philip begins in progress. 00:31:17 - Life in Hays and Munjor in the early 1930s
00:33:16 - Introduction, Ward Philip of Brownell, KS on March 27, 1970
00:33:36 - History of the Batell Ranch
00:36:56 - Use of root cellars
00:38:07 - Operation of the ranch and the ranch clock
00:40:29 - Water system
00:41:49 - Blizzard of 1931 near Victoria, KS
00:50:32 - Plight of the cows
Physical Description
reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation
Subject
Frontier & pioneer life, Homesteading, Farming, Rural schools, Brownell (Kan.), Ranching, Cattle, Murder, Crime, Suicide, Volga-Germans
Rights
© University Archives, Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University
Publisher
Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections
Collection
Repository
Recommended Citation
Engel, Kenneth P., "Interviews with Nellie Holtzinger, Alois B. Engel, Mildred Philip, and Ward Philip" (1970). Samuel J. Sackett Folklore Collection. 130.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/sackett/130
Language
eng
Comments
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