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"A few years ago, as I listened one night to my mother telling incidents of her life pioneering in the semi-arid region of Western Kansas, it occurred to me that the picture of that early time was worth drawing and preserving for the future, and that, if this were ever to be done, it must be done soon, before all of the old settlers were gone. This book is the result-an effort to picture that life truly and realistically. It is the story of an energetic...
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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...
8) Osborne County, Kansas scenic & heritage backways: eleven tours for explorers who dare to do dirt
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V. Rothenberger]
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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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.
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Ad Astra Publishing
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Through news articles, previously unpublished histories, and former residents' recollections, the author's compilation attests that the history of Covert is synonymous with the history of rural life in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.