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Alice Kiper

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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

© University Archives, Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University

Publisher

Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections

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Language

eng

Interview with Melvin Simmons

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