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Identifier

RT398_F666m_1960_03

Publication Date

7-23-1960

Description

An interview with Charlie I. Griffith, Lena Cox, and John B. & Lula M. Ray all of Norton, KS regarding their experiences growing up as homesteaders on the Kansas plains.
00:00:32 - John B. Ray, coming to Edmond, KS by railroad in 1885.
00:01:51 - Father's purchase of the Edmond general store and amusing anecdotes
00:05:19 - Sod houses in Norton County
00:06:07 - Prairie fires
00:07:06 - Trading in the country store
00:07:40 - Lula Ray introduction and family's homesteading in Jewell County
00:09:15 - Grasshopper plague in 1872
00:10:57 - Charlie Griffith, mosquitoes in a buffalo wallow
00:13:02 - Planting potatoes in a buffalo wallow
00:13:39 - Father's civil war service
00:16:15 - Family history
00:18:06 - Lena Cox, father's civil war service
00:19:55 - C.H. Griffith on medical remedies
00:21:23 - Availability of foods and dietary habits
00:22:58 - Cure for hiccups
00:23:22 - Breaking sod
00:24:06 - More on food availability and dietary habits
00:27:00 - Wedding customs
00:31:55 - Midwives
00:34:32 - Housing, building customs, dances, and music
00:36:32 - School experiences
00:38:14 - Box suppers
00:39:48 - Poem: My little sod shanty on the plains
00:41:35 - Rug weaving, bedding, and clothing
00:44:55 - Horse riding
00:48:25 - School experience
00:50:14 - Winters and blizzards
00:52:18 - Walker family in Edmond, KS in 1886
00:54:01 - Auntie Winnie Lanear, former African American slave
00:56:12 - Murder of John Landis
00:57:41 - Dust Bowl Era (1931-1939)

Physical Description

reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation

Subject

Frontier & pioneer life, Edmond (Kan.), Jewell County (Kan.), Locusts, Traditional medicine, United States Civil War, Rural schools, Sod houses, Weddings, Sleighs, Shooting, African Americans, Slavery

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

Interview with Charlie I. Griffith, Lena Cox, and John B. & Lula M. Ray.

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