Samuel J. Sackett Folklore Collection
 

Ronald G. Cooke

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Identifier

RT398_F666m_1963_06

Publication Date

11-12-1963

Description

Interview with Kansas homesteaders. Interview begins with a woman speaking over a man.
00:00:20 - Troubles encountered on a cattle drive
00:06:45 - Recipe and process for wild grape wine
00:09:15 - Bootleggers
00:11:10 - Booger Red
00:12:38 - More stories about bootleggers
00:19:04 - Stagecoach routes and towns along those routes
00:21:24 - Plum bush Christmas tree
00:22:11 - Tornado story
00:28:05 - Story about a cow after a snow storm
00:28:30 - Tornado story
00:30:08 - Stories an old barber would tell
00:32:08 - Bill Horn
00:35:12 - Halloween and tic-tacking
00:36:38 - Playing tricks on Mr. and Mrs. Palmer
00:38:08 - Shivarees
00:40:34 - Encounters with Indigenous Americans
00:42:50 - Flowerpot Mound and Pawnee Rock
00:44:56 - Uncle Henry builds the first house in Dodge City
00:47:50 - Bachelor life on the prairie
00:54:05 - Prairie Dog John
01:01:22 - Early Aetna
01:06:42 - Coyote hunts
01:07:33 - Racoon hunts
01:09:11 - Funeral customs during the 1918 influenza epidemic
01:12:03 - The Moore family
01:15:05 - Superstitions
01:17:21 - Keyno Armstrong, an old stage driver and newspaperman in Lake City
01:19:05 - Stories about Uncle Fred
01:21:08 - Peace treaty in 1862 with Indigenous Americans

Physical Description

reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation

Subject

Frontier & pioneer life, Cowboys, Cimmaron River (Kan.), Samuel Thomas Privett, Aetna (Kan.), Medicine Lodge (Kan.), Maxwell (Kan.), Evansville (Kan.), Nescatunga (Kan.), Coldwater (Kan.), Blackwell (Kan.), Indigenous people

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© University Archives, Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University

Publisher

Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections

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Language

eng

Interview with Kansas Homesteaders

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