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Language
English
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Deeply moved by his mother's memories of a waning era and rapidly disappearing lifestyle, John Ise painstakingly recorded the adventures and adversities of his family and boyhood neighbors—the early homesteaders of Osborne County, Kansas. First published in 1936, his "nonfiction novel" Sod and Stubble has since become a widely read and much loved classic. In the original, Ise changed some identities and time sequences but accurately retained the...
Author
Publisher
Ad Astra Publishing
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Through news articles, previously unpublished histories, and former residents' recollections, the author's compilation attests that the history of Covert is synonymous with the history of rural life in Kansas during its 86 years of existence (1880 to 1966). The appendices include lists of burials, students, school personnel, etc.
Author
Publisher
Ad Astra Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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The concept of this work is to list every known formal burial that has occurred within what is now Osborne County, Kansas. Information for each entry comes from myriad of sources. These include cemetery surveys, obituaries, county records of land, probate, and taxes, and census data, as well as published biographical books for the area. A map of cemetery locations, graves of unknown individuals, and lot maps of the Downs and Osborne cemeteries are...
17) Osborne County, Kansas scenic & heritage backways: eleven tours for explorers who dare to do dirt
Author
Publisher
V. Rothenberger]
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Eleven self-guided tours of the north central Kansas Osborne County. Itineraries include cemeteries, little-known communities and ghost towns, and locations related to frontier literature, such as works by John Ise and Howard Ruede.
