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Interview with George King of Hays, Kansas
Brooks Kellogg
Interview with George King of Hays, KS.
00:00:09 - Introduction
00:00:28 - Buffalo Bill and life at Old Fort Hays
. 00:02:47 - Building of Fort Hays State College and description of early Hays City
00:03:33 - Seven bodies of prostitutes moved from Boot Hill
00:04:23 - A robbery and attempted murder
00:05:49 - Hays courthouse burning down and attempted jail break
00:07:53 - Shootings in town
00:09:25 - His mother's arrival in Hays and her pet buffalo
00:12:52 - Old timers of Hays and selling empty bottles as children
00:14:02 - The rag man
00:14:54 - Playing with ice as children and the first electric lights
00:16:04 - Old soldiers' and old settlers' get togethers and a brawl
00:17:35 - Halloween activities
00:19:14 - Why he quit school and became a baker
00:22:23 - Real estate dealings and early Hays buildings
00:25:22 - Early work and wages
00:31:13 - Singing in Malloy's productions
00:32:45 - Friendship with vice-president Charles Curtis
00:33:33 - Losing a son in the war and his other children
00:37:29 - Discovery of an Indigenous American campground and information about Wild Bill Hickok
00:41:18 - Hays prostitutes
00:43:11 - Childhood games
00:44:38 - Duties in the bakery
00:45:53 - Story about Shriners using the toilet at his place of business
00:47:11 - Grinding grain
00:48:47 - Madden's wealth
00:50:20 - Stories about Dr. Joseph Henry Middlekauff and his family
00:56:21 - Stories about Charles Curtis helping with various issues
01:03:42 - Stories about early football in the state
01:13:09 - Killing a mountain lion and more on his mother's buffalo
01:16:00 - Early water system in Hays and a winter fire
01:17:19 - Stories about wintertime including trips to other towns, feeding cattle, and snowstorms
01:23:25 - Local legends regarding disappearances -
Interview with George S. Merritt, Madalen Merritt, Ava Schwindt and Louis T. Jacobi
George W. Merritt and Helen Patterson
Interview with George S. Merritt, Madalen Merritt, Ava Schwindt and Louis T. Jacobi.
00:00:50 - A bad snowstorm that stopped a train
00:07:00 - The train hits a car
00:09:03 - The amount of coal and water used on a trip
00:14:00 - Interview with Madalen Merrit
00:14:20 - Story told by her grandmother about a man who was buried alive. Story is told in Ukrainian
00:16:21 - English translation of the preceding story
00:18:18 - Story about a girl who would visit her grandmother in the cemetery
00:20:52 - Ukrainian Fairy Tale, "The Spindle"
00:26:18 - Interview with Ava Schwindt of Norton, KS. Recording is muffled.
00:26:40 - Beginning of Ava Schwindt interview. Audio is severely degraded.
00:49:19 - Prairie Fires
01:05:55 - Song, "Too-roo-lee-loo"
01:06:57 - Song, "When You and I Were Young, Maggie"
01:07:44 - Song "I'm just a little . . ."
01:08:40 - Song, "Bright Eyes So Bright"
01:09:34 - Louis T. Jacobi of Agra, KS plays the fiddle. Interview begins in progress. 01:09:38 - Song, "Miss Brown Reel"
01:10:51 - Song, Unnamed folk tune
01:12:17 - Song, Unnamed polka
01:14:51 - Song, "Jenny Lind Polka"
01:15:57 - Song, Unnamed folk tune
01:17:10 - Song, Unnamed folk tune
01:18:09 - Song, "The Mockingbirds" -
Interview with Gertrude Warren, Armenta Allison, and Amy Toepfer
Jerry Allison and John B. Terbovich
Interview with Gertrude Warren, Armenta Allison, and Amy Toepfer. The beginning of the tape is too quiet to hear and the overall recording quality is poor. 00:01:14 - Superstitions about mud
00:04:30 - Trip to Kansas in a covered wagon
00:08:03 - Wolves attack their horses
00:10:02 - How they got their water
00:10:25 - Early schooling
00:11:12 - Games they played
00:11:35 - Their dugout
00:12:58 - More on the trip from Illinois to Kansas in a covered wagon
00:14:44 - Their wedding when she was 16 years old
00:15:31 - Opinion against child marriages
00:17:34 - Story about staying too long at a neighbor's house
00:19:03 - Attitude towards wearing shoes as a child
00:20:12 - Lynching a man from a railroad bridge
00:21:10 - Indigenous Americans and buffalo
00:24:18 - Pregnancy, childbirth, and nursing
00:26:40 - More about her wedding
00:27:45 - Song, "The Wedding of the Honey Bees" (vocal)
00:29:37 - Life on a Kansas farm
00:34:58 - Discussion of the name of the town
00:36:16 - Support for sundown laws
00:37:54 - Experiences as a meat-cutter
00:40:30 - Story about soldiers killing Indigenous Americans
00:44:06 - Killing of a dog
00:46:17 - Further villainy of the soldiers
00:48:10 - Story about a murder-suicide involving a father and his children
00:50:57 - Young man disappears for 40 years
00:54:09 - Sewing up an apprentice's pocket so he wouldn't stand with his hands in his pockets
00:55:27 - Baked possum, wild game, and preparing and preserving meat
01:00:51 - History of Adolphe and holding a claim
01:03:08 - Childhood games, activities, and Christmas celebrations
01:14:48 - Introduction, Amy Toepfer of Hays, KS. May 9, 1962.
01:15:09 - Volga-German superstitions related to the Kirghiz night raids
01:21:10 - Role of religious conviction in superstitions
01:22:44 - Boys planting trees on May 1 for their girlfriends
01:25:00 - Superstitions surrounding cemeteries
01:26:54 - Volga-German Clans -
Interview with Gus Hadwigger
Samuel John Sackett 1928-2018
An interview with Gus Hadwiger, a law enforcement officer, homesteader, and participant in Indigenous American Removal in Oklahoma in the late 1800s.
00:00:16 - Time as a marshal
00:02:54 - Train and bank robberies
00:14:39 - Dalton Gang
00:17:14 - Jaeger and Black gang
00:27:09 - Horse thieves
00:28:22 - Alva
00:30:34 - Army enlistment and deployment to the Philippines
00:30:05 - School house arsonist
00:32:18 - Chicken story
00:33:19 - Best rifleman in Oklahoma
00:34:30 - Arrival of the railroad and end of cow punching
00:35:30 - Move to Colorado
00:36:05 - Economic Panic and opening of Oklahoma Territory
00:39:42 - Cyclone
00:43:11 - Cherokee Run
The Samuel J. Sackett Folklore Collection consists of recordings created by Dr. Sackett and his graduate assistants between the years of 1954 and 1977. Dr. Sackett and his assistants interviewed immigrants, homesteaders, and other community figures in Kansas and beyond, with a specific focus on folk music and folk lore. Subjects covered include folk music, folk stories, immigration and homesteading in the late 1800s through early 1900s, relations with Indigenous Americans and other minorities, Volga-German music, language, and customs, along with a wealth of genealogical information. Some of the recordings include racially sensitive language and as well as accounts of hate crimes. Originally recorded on reel-to-reel media, the collection was migrated to cassette tape in the 1990s and then transferred to digital beginning in 2020. Many of the recordings were in poor condition. The access recordings presented here have undergone audio enhancement in order to improve the user experience where possible, though some recordings remain difficult to understand. Unaltered audio transfers are available for researchers on request. Dr. Sackett served in the Department of English at FHSU for 23 years and founded the Kansas Folklore Society. His research materials were transferred to the University Archives in 1992.
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