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Identifier

RT398_F666m_1971_05

Publication Date

10-24-1971

Description

Interviews with Robert Wallace, Lucy Wasinger, Margaret Riedel and Alice MacDonald Wynn.
00:00:00 - Introduction, Robert Wallace of Larned, KS
00:00:25 - General conversation
00:01:30 - Story about his cousin being killed by an intruder
00:06:47 - Strean crossing
00:09:00 - Bank robbery
00:10:17 - Hanging on the Solomon River
00:12:59 - Mother's candy store
00:15:17 - A drunk
00:17:51 - Hunting
00:24:55 - Neighbors
00:26:18 - Story about a burial
00:32:40 - Story about a bull
00:35:50 - Story about an automobile wreck in 1910
00:43:24 - Introduction, Lucy Wasinger of Hays, KS
00:43:41 - Story about her father finding a penny
00:45:06 - Introduction, Margaret Riedel of Hays, KS. This interview suffers from poor audio quality.
00:45:25 - Russian settlers
00:48:36 - Size of her family
00:51:00 - Coming to the United States
00:52:08 - Food and butchering
00:53:54 - Moving to Russia from Germany and experience with the Mongolians
00:54:53 - Great grandfather being taken captive by Mongolians
00:58:53 - Her father's death
01:00:58 - Conditions in Russia
01:04:24 - Englishmen living in Victoria
01:07:07 - Keeping meat and milk
01:09:10 - Description of Mongolians and her great grandfather's escape
01:11:05 - Harvest season
01:12:10 - French people living in German colonies
01:12:53 - Introduction, Alice MacDonald Wynn of Hays, KS
01:13:24 - Coming to America from Scotland in 1919
01:17:06 - Games played
01:22:03 - Stories

Physical Description

reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation

Subject

Volga Germans, Homesteading, Scotland, Immigration, Frontier & pioneer life, Minneapolis (Kan.), Crime

Rights

© University Archives, Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University

Publisher

Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections

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For questions contact ScholarsRepository@fhsu.edu

Language

eng, ger

Interviews with Robert Wallace, Lucy Wasinger, Margaret Riedel and Alice MacDonald Wynn

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