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Identifier
RT398_F666m_1965_05
Publication Date
12-15-1965
Description
Interviews with Dora May Pruitt, Charles Miller, Lizzie Johannes, and Helen Johannes Miller.
00:00:00 - Interview with an unidentified woman begins in progress. Life on the frontier as a child.
00:00:48 - Information about her parents and family, and herding cattle as a child
00:01:26 - Interview switches to another unidentified woman speaking about school in 1900
00:05:18 - Description of Rozel, KS and a fire downtown
00:11:29 - Story about the Rozel depot in 1897
00:14:05 - Rozel postmasters
00:17:04 - Butchering hogs
00:19:45 - Literaries. Interview abruptly ends.
00:20:12 - Introduction, interview with Charles Miller by Gerald Buckston of Ransom, KS on December 15, 1965
00:20:43 - Earliest memories from 1894 and his uncles homesteading in Hamilton County, KS
00:23:28 - Grandfather's farm
00:27:19 - Early transportation
00:28:20 - The Cuban War. Interview cuts off.
00:28:52 - Interview with Lizzie Johannes of Ransom, KS. Moving to Kansas at 14 years old in 1887
00:30:08 - Moving to a sod house after her marriage in 1893 and then moving to Ransom in 1910
00:30:51 - Life on the prairie
00:32:26 - Introduction to the preceding interview
00:32:43 - Introduction, interview with Helen Johannes Miller of Ransom, KS by Gerald Buckston on December 15, 1965
00:33:03 - Grandparents moving to the United States from Switzerland and their baby dying on the train to Missouri
00:34:31 - Moving to Ness County, KS in 1887 and life on the prairie
00:35:43 - Grandpa getting caught in a storm
00:36:24 - More about life on the prairie: Social life, heating fuel, schools, and games played
00:39:57 - Civil War Bushwhackers
00:41:40 - Harsh winters
00:42:58 - Introduction, Charles Miller of Ransom, KS by Gerald Buckston on December 15, 1965
00:43:16 - Memories of his father and his revival meetings as a Methodist preacher
00:44:56 - Father's preaching circuit
00:46:03 - Camp meetings
00:47:08 - Literary society
Physical Description
reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation
Subject
Frontier & pioneer life, Rural schools, Farming, Immigration -- Switzerland, Larned (Kan.), Ness County (Kan.), Ransom (Kan.), Clearwater (Kan.), Stafford (Kan.), Prairie fires, Rozel (Kan.), Pawnee County (Kan.)
Rights
© University Archives, Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University
Publisher
Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections
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Recommended Citation
Buxton, Jerold, "Interviews with Dora May Pruitt, Charles Miller, Lizzie Johannes, and Helen Johannes Miller" (1965). Samuel J. Sackett Folklore Collection. 97.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/sackett/97
Language
eng
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