Harvest Tales - South Central Kansas

Browse harvest stories submitted by Kansans for the online exhibit, Wheat People: Celebrating Kansas Harvest.

Click on a county to read its harvest stories, or scroll down to the list below. To submit your own harvest story, contact us at kshs.kansasmuseum@ks.gov.

Barber

Sorry! We have no stories from this county.

Barton

Phill Martin, "I look at farming as 'What do I have control over?'"

Butler

Sorry! We have no stories from this county.

Cowley

Paul Lawrence, "Winfield seems like an unlikely place to find a custom combining operation"

Harper

Sorry! We have no stories from this county.

Harvey

Nelson Dreier, The first John Deere self-propelled combine

Kingman

Sorry! We have no stories from this county.

Marion

Homer Socolofsky, Carrying water to threshers and Working as a harvest hand

McPherson

Steven Stover, Binding and threshing wheat and Custom threshing

Pratt

Sorry! We have no stories from this county.

Reno

Vicki Arnett, "The summer I was 10 years old . . . my legs were long enough to reach the clutch"
Buhler Centennial Calendar, Photos of threshing scenes and the Wall & Rogalsky Roller Mill
Howard & June Peacock, 1960s harvest photos, including lunch in the field

Rice

Doug Keesling, "All farms are corporate farms"
Byron Patton, Harvesting wheat, barley, and oats after 1900 and Runaway Team
John Stumps, Photos of headers, threshing machines, and early combines

Sedgwick

JoEllen Forward Greenlee, A Proud Farmer's Daughter

Stafford

Howard Stude, A new 1927 Model D John Deere tractor

Sumner

Robert Miller, Leadership skills of people with farming backgrounds

"Harvest Tales" is part of the online exhibit, Wheat People: Celebrating Kansas Harvest, developed by the Kansas Museum of History.

Contact us at kshs.kansasmuseum@ks.gov