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Identifier
RT398_F666m_1958_18
Publication Date
11-20-1958
Description
An interview with Alice White of Coldwater, KS regarding her experiences homesteading in Comanche County, Kansas. Recording contains various songs and remembrances.
00:00:24 - Moving to western Kansas in 1885
00:02:31 - Life in a sod house
00:04:43 - Experience with Indigenous Americans
00:09:30 - School experiences
00:14:14 - Churches
00:19:13 - Literary Society
00:20:14 - Poem, "No I wasn't cryin' neither"
00:22:07 - Poem, "A woman come to our house once"
00:24:10 - Poem, "You're surprised if ever I ay so"
00:28:52 - Poem, "It is well I ran into the garden"
00:29:44 - Poem, "Once there was a kitty"
00:30:44 - Poem, "Kentucky Belle"
00:38:37 - Poem, "Who shall it be?"
00:43:06 - Poem, "St. Valentine's Eve"
00:46:37 - Poem, "Ms. Dorothy Dot with her little red chair"
00:47:09 - Poem, "Kitty, kitty"
00:47:34 - Poem, "Daddy says I love him too"
00:47:55 - Poem, "A good wife rose from her bed that day"
00:49:46 - Poem, "The Dashing Ride of Jenny McNeil"
Physical Description
reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation
Subject
Comanche County (Kan.), Frontier and pioneer life, Covered wagons, Homesteading, Winfield (Kan.), Sod houses, Dugouts, Indigenous Americans, Forced Indigenous Removal, Rural schools, Poetry
Rights
© Forsyth Library Special Collections, Fort Hays State University
Publisher
Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections
Repository
Recommended Citation
Hewitt, Geneva, "Interview with Alice White" (1958). Samuel J. Sackett Folklore Collection. 28.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/sackett/28
Language
eng
Comments
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