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Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Kanza Days
The following musical pieces and readings were performed, Overture Steel Across the Plains, Wind People (Rails End) Coronodos, (Iron horse) Quest for…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Baird, John
John Baird described the building of Byrant School which is now the Cowley County Historical Society Museum and other construction around Winfield,…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Fuller Bender, Lucille
Lucille Fuller Bender shared memories of her grandparents when they were settlers around 1870-1879 in the Winfield area. She also shared her memories…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Bloomfield, Bob and Bloomfield, Bertha
Bob and Bertha Bloomfield shared memories of growing up in the Winfield area. Bertha shared information about the Progressive State Bank. Bob shared…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Bloomshine, George
George Bloomshine shares memories dating back to 1884 of living on a farm in the Winfield area. He also recalls attending the Cowley County Fair.
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Hankins, Gertrude
Gertrude Hankins shares the history of when her family came to Cowley County in 1871 from Ray County in Missouri. They first settled near Grouse…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Fox, Lizzie
Lizzie Fox shared memories of her family living in Douglass, KS dating back from 1896. When she married in 1919 her and her husband moved to…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Gould, Ralph
Ralph shares the history of his father traveling from Chicago, IL in 1872 by covered wagon. He and other family members settled in the Tisdale, KS…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Dunn Gardner, Mary
Edna shares the memories of her mother who came from Indiana and her father who came from Ireland to settle in Cowley County, KS. Edna shares stories…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Babour, Hobart
Hobart shared his memories of the musicians that came to Winfield. In 1907, Frank Mossman, president of Southwestern College, asked his father to…