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Identifier
RT398_F666m_1958_12
Publication Date
7-4-1958
Description
An interview with former Lane County Kansas probate judge and Justice of the Peace Andy J. Myers regarding experiences during the early days of Kansas.
00:00:40 - Biographical information
00:01:36 - Career history
00:03:43 - County seat fight between Ravanna and Eminence, Kansas
00:17:32 - Song, On the bed ground in a cow camp
00:22:40 - Fight at Ravanna
00:33:42 - Horse thieves
00:38:32 - School experiences
00:40:55 - County elections
00:41:57 - Wagon travel
00:43:38 - Visiting Lawrence, KS after Quantrill's Raid - Note: Mr. Myers was born in 1868. Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence happened in August of 1863. Mr. Myers was in Lawrence in 1877.
00:45:27 - Getting Glasses
00:47:29 - Wild Buffalo
00:48:07 - Experiences with Indigenous Americans
00:49:25 - Dodge City, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp
00:50:24 - Stories he's read
00:52:21 - Wife and children
Physical Description
reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation
Subject
Frontier and pioneer life, African Americans, Slavery -- United States, Voter fraud, Elections--Corrupt practices, Jetmore (Kan.), Crime, Rural schools, Cowboys
Rights
© Forsyth Library Special Collections, Fort Hays State University
Publisher
Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections
Repository
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Alma, "Interview with Andy J. Myers" (1958). Samuel J. Sackett Folklore Collection. 22.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/sackett/22
Language
eng
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