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Laura Morgan

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Identifier

RT398_F666m_1960_06

Publication Date

7-23-1960

Description

An interview with Lena and Walter Morgan, Mrs. Pearl Toothacher, and Mr. Ervin Morgan containing various stories and remembrances.
00:00:41 - Lena Deibert Morgan, Moving to Kansas from Iowa in the winter of 1901
00:02:54 - Life on the farm south of Hoxie, KS
00:03:47 - Walter Morgan, early life history
00:05:52 - Early memories
00:06:34 - School experiences
00:07:45 - Herding cattle
00:11:08 - Literaries and dances
00:12:26 - Churches and Sunday schools
00:14:16 - Proverbs and sayings
00:18:40 - Superstitions
00:20:13 - Remedies
00:22:33 - Prairie Fires
00:25:06 - Audio becomes very quiet
00:26:13 - Normal audio resumes
00:26:20 - Interview with Pearl Toothacher introduction
00:26:44 - Family history and early memories
00:27:58 - Experience with Indigenous Americans in 1883
00:29:55 - Child reading the bible
00:30:31 - Poem, Gripe and Grin
00:31:04 - Poem, Like October
00:32:14 - Ervin Morgan introduction
00:33:07 - Grandfather's life as an Army scout and homesteader
00:35:25 - Grandfather Morgan's acquaintance with Buffalo Bill Cody
00:36:10 - Museum Ranch in Sheridan County, KS
00:37:27 - Indigenous American remains on Museum Ranch
00:37:59 - Cattle drives
00:39:57 - Experience with Indigenous Americans in 1878
00:44:30 - Bank Robbers at Lenora, KS
00:46:53 - Laura Morgan, family's arrival in western Kansas
00:48:12 - Quaker sayings

Physical Description

reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation

Subject

Covered wagons, Marysville (Kan.), Sod houses, Dugout houses, Frontier & pioneer life, Homesteading, Indigenous Americans, William F. Cody, Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma, Little Wolf (-1904), Oberlin (Kan.)

Rights

© University Archives, Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University

Publisher

Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections

Comments

For questions contact ScholarsRepository@fhsu.edu

Language

eng

Interview with Mr. & Mrs. W.E. Morgan, Mrs. C.E Toothacher, and Mr. Ervin Morgan

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