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This is a local history of Jerome Township, Gove County, Kansas, as recollected by Fred Baker, Gove City, Kansas. Baker wrote this sketch and submitted it in March 1918 to the Golden Belt Educational Association at Hays, Kansas, and was awarded a prize. Also included is a letter from Judge J.C. Ruppenthal, Russell, Kansas, to William Connelly, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas, who received the sketch from Baker and wished for it to be donated into the Society's holdings.
Creator: Baker, Fred
Date: 1918
Item Number: 218669
Call Number: History collections: Gove County
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 218669
Agriculture - Crops - Rye
Agriculture - Crops - Vegetables - Corn
Agriculture - Crops - Wheat
Agriculture - Livestock - Cattle
Agriculture - Ranching - Herding
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Ranchers
Collections - Manuscript - History - Gove County
Community Life - Town development
Date - 1910s - 1918
Education - Higher education
Education - Primary
Education - Rural
Education - Secondary
Environment - Water - Streams and Creeks
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Reminiscence
People - American Indians
People - Notable People - Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890
Places - Counties - Gove
Thematic Time Period - Exploration, 1541 - 1820
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Trails - Pony Express
Type of Material - Printed materials - Reminiscence
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