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Marlysue Esping-Holmquist, wife of Thomas Holmquist, farms in Saline County, Kansas, near Smolan. She describes the history of their farm and the chance involved in its allotment in a flood plain near Dry Creek in 1868.
Creator: Esping-Holmquist, Marlysue
Date: June 6, 2008
Item Number: 213388
Call Number: 2009-007.01
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213388
Agriculture - Environment - Water
Agriculture - Environment - Weather - Floods
Agriculture - Family farming
Collections - Audio-visual
Community Life - Disasters and accidents - Floods
Date - 2000s - 2007
Date - 2000s - 2008
Environment - Water - Streams and Creeks
Environment - Weather - Floods
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Audio recording
People - European Americans - Swedish
Places - Counties - Saline
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - The Recent Past, 1975 - present
Type of Material - Audio - Oral histories
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