Out on the dust-blown Kansas prairie the sod houses of the homesteaders were built. Some of them would still be in use through the early years of the 1900's. A Mr. John Trotter's parents had been Kansas immigrants, just as his wife's had. In 1914 Mr. and Mrs. Trotter, on a farm near Hutchinson, Kansas, became parents to a baby they named Wesley. Some years later Wesley and his wife made their first home in one of those old sod houses on the Kansas Plains. More years passed and they presented Mr. and Mrs. John Trotter with a granddaughter who was born on another farm on the Nebraska Plains. By the way, I am that granddaughter.
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Old West Kansas http://www.ukans.edu/heritage/old_west/o...
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Major printed sources for this article are:
The Indian Frontier of the American West 1846-1890 By Robert M. Utley. Published by University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1984.
Alistair Cooke's America, by Alistair Cooke. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1974.
Collier's Encyclopedia, Vol. 13. 1968.
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