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Identifier
RT398_F666m_1975_01
Publication Date
3-29-1975
Description
Interview with Melvin Simmons of Almena, KS on March 29, 1975.
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:21 - Biographical information
00:01:38 - Schooldays
00:03:52 - Homesteading
00:06:58 - Sod houses
00:10:26 - His family
00:12:29 - Almena, KS
00:15:39 - Buffalo
00:16:15 - Amos Cole
00:23:45 - Buffalo
00:24:18 - Digging wells
00:27:00 - Dog chasing an antelope
00:29:25 - Farmers
00:30:08 - Entertainment
00:33:49 - Horses
00:38:09 - Alice Kiper's family
00:39:23 - Water pump and fires
00:45:35 - Raising watermelons and onions
00:48:17 - Making butter
00:50:20 - Keeping bees
00:54:39 - Working during childhood
00:58:32 - Farming
01:01:45 - His wife and marriage
01:11:25 - Move to Coffey County, KS and then to Guymon, OK, and on to Almena, KS
01:23:38 - Running the rest home in Almena
Physical Description
reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation
Subject
Frontier & pioneer life, Farming, Homesteading, Sod houses, Indigenous people, Buffaloes
Rights
© Fort Hays State University
Publisher
Digitized by FHSU Digital Collections
Collection
Repository
Recommended Citation
Kiper, Alice, "Interview with Melvin Simmons" (1975). Samuel J. Sackett Folklore Collection. 151.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/sackett/151
Language
eng
Comments
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