Harvest Tales - Southwest 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.
Clark
- Kendra Weddle Irons, Preparing for harvest and harvest and meals in the field
Comanche
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Edwards
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Finney
- Pauline Joyce, Image of threshing on the Greathouse farm
- Mary Ann Stillings, "I lived in Kansas on a wheat farm"
- Tom Shrimplin, Harvest slide show from the Shrimplin farm
Ford
- Lola Crum, Homesteading and Harvest photos
Grant
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Gray
- Howard Stude, Farming in Gray and Meade counties
Greeley
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Hamilton
- Jesse Ivan Kitch, Dust storms during the 1930s
Haskell
- Larry Stude, A minor harvest mishap
- Howard Stude, Dirty Thirties and World War II
Hodgeman
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Kearny
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Kiowa
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Lane
- Bill Doris, Photo of Bill Doris threshing crew
- D.O. Durr, Photographs of early grain elevators and planting and harvesting wheat
- William Gromeman, Two photos of harvest scenes
Meade
- Howard Stude, Farming in Gray and Meade counties
Morton
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Ness
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Pawnee
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Rush
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Scott
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Seward
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Stanton
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Stevens
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Wichita
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"Harvest Tales" is part of the online exhibit, Wheat People: Celebrating Kansas Harvest, developed by the Kansas Museum of History.
- Northwest Kansas Harvest Tales
- North Central Kansas Harvest Tales
- Northeast Kansas Harvest Tales
- Southwest Kansas Harvest Tales
- South Central Kansas Harvest Tales
- Southeast Kansas Harvest Tales
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Contact us at kshs.kansasmuseum@ks.gov
