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Identifier
RT398_F666m_1962_05
Publication Date
5-13-1962
Description
An interview with George King of Hays, KS on May 13, 1962.
00:00:04 - Introduction and biographical information
00:04:39 - Career as a pharmacist
00:20:00 - Parents
00:22:06 - A shooting on the day of his mother's arrival from Germany
00:23:54 - Boot hill on 18th street in Hays and locally famous murders
00:26:39 - Discussion of photos shown to interviewers of local theatrical productions
00:33:09 - Local football
00:37:14 - James Farm
00:43:20 - Meeting Vice President Charles Curtis
00:48:53 - Law enforcement in the early days of Hays - Wild Bill Hickok
00:54:25 - Relations with Indigenous Americans
00:54:59 - Buffalo soldiers of the 9th Cavalry
00:57:06 - Storms and blizzards
00:58:02 - Robberies in old Hays
00:59:39 - Anecdote about bugs used for red coloring
01:02:00 - Prostitutes exhumed from Boot Hill (racist language)
01:07:53 - Parts in theatrical productions
01:10:11 - Hachmeier family and the 9th Cavalry (racist language)
01:13:16 - Charles Curtis and the experiment station
01:16:05 - Mary Middlekauff as a source
01:17:28 - Brother Charlie
01:17:45 - Social life in early Hays
Physical Description
reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation
Subject
Wild West, Crime, William F. Cody, Jesse James, African American soldiers, Pharmacists, Hays (Kan.), Ellis County (Kan.)
Rights
© University Archives, Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University
Publisher
Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections
Collection
Repository
Recommended Citation
Mai, Norman E., "Interview of George King" (1962). Samuel J. Sackett Folklore Collection. 63.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/sackett/63
Language
eng
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