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Identifier

RT398_F666m_1961_03

Publication Date

4-13-1961

Description

An recording of a lecture given by Thornton Walton Wells, former school superintendent of Russell County Schools, to Samuel Sackett's folklore class at Fort Hays Kansas State College on April 13, 1961.
00:00:00 - Cheyenne Bottoms: Hunting, Laying the Railroad and Dog Racing.
00:18:00 - Folklore discussion: Cocklebur story
00:22:08 - Osage Orange wood
00:25:33 - Fish skin purse
00:29:42 - Hunting
00:30:29 - Hydrophobia (rabies), mad stones, other fears
00:42:32 - Mother Bickerdyke and buffalo hunts
00:45:18 - Poem "How do I know my youth is all spent?"

Physical Description

reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation

Subject

Goose Creek, Russell County (Kan.), Pilot Rock, Hunting, Deception Creek, Hoisington (Kan.), Boyd (Kan.), Barton County (Kan.), Railroads, Lucas (Kan.), Luray (Kan), Great Bend (Kan.), Big Creek

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

T. W. Wells Lecture - April 13, 1961

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