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Identifier

RT398_F666m_1962_15

Publication Date

6-16-1962

Description

Interviews with Hilda Galster, Bertha Fetsch, Alvin Kreutzer, Father Leo F. Kelty, Joe Misry, Rudolph Oborny, L.W. Roberts, and Ida Walker. 00:00:01 - Introduction, Hilda Galster of Marienthal, KS (Interview is muffled)
00:00:10 - Personal history
00:00:56 - Bank Robbery and Fleagle gang living at their ranch
00:08:31 - Austrian folk verse
00:08:52 - Introduction, Bertha Fetsch of Marienthal, KS on June 16, 1962.
00:09:08 - "Indigestible Goat" a reading
00:12:15 - Introduction, Alvin Kreutzer of Marienthal, KS on June 16, 1962.
00:12:40 - Song, "You Are My Sunshine" on violin
00:14:00 - Unnamed Russian song on violin
00:15:08 - Song, "Marienthal is a Nice Little Town" vocal, in German
00:15:32 - Unidentified wedding polka from 1900 played on accordion.
00:16:22 - German wedding dance song, accordion
00:17:45 - Song, "Red Wing Polka," accordion
00:18:54 - Introduction, Father Leo F. Kelty of Marienthal, KS on June 16, 1962.
00:19:10 - Battle between the United States Army and local indigenous peoples
00:23:28 - Introduction, recording of Rudolph Oborny interviewing Joe Misry of Rogers, NE on December 4, 1952. Recording is of poor quality.
00:24:10 - Account of a skirmish between homesteaders and Indigenous Americans in 1876.
00:28:56 - Bohemian song, "When We Were Eating Crabs" played on accordion by Rudolph Oborny 00:30:50 - Untitled song, played on accordion.
00:32:24 - Introduction, L.W. Roberts of Quintin, KS interviewed by Gloria Havens
00:32:35 - A nest of snakes
00:36:17 - How to make a sod house
00:38:15 - Harvesting wheat
00:43:55 - Coming to Kansas by train
00:44:44 - Blizzard of 1886
00:45:55 - Gold mine in Kansas
00:48:36 - Breaking a leg
00:57:46 - Treatment for a snakebite
00:58:23 - Christmas customs
01:01:40 - Story about Mexican homesteaders (Recording quality degrades)
01:11:51 - Jack rabbits
01:13:25 - How to file a claim and rabbit hunting
The remainder of the tape is missing.

Physical Description

reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation

Subject

Crime, Frontier & pioneer life, Murder, Dighton (Kan.), Elkader (Kan.), Folklore, Folk music, Folk songs, Indigenous Americans, Indigenous people, Eureka (Kan.), Yates Center (Kan.), Farming

Rights

© University Archives, Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University

Publisher

Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections

Comments

For questions contact ScholarsRepository@fhsu.edu

Language

eng, ger

Interviews with Hilda Galster, Bertha Fetsch, Alvin Kreutzer, Father Leo F. Kelty, Joe Misry, Rudolph Oborny, L.W. Roberts, and Ida Walker.

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