Life & Times of Blanche Dolly Alfrey Reeman: My Dear Children

Publication

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St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Life & Times of Blanche "Dolly" Alfrey Reeman: My Dear Children

Entry/Object ID

L1993.10.1

Description

Life & Times of Blanche "Dolly" Alfrey Reeman: My Dear Children. Photocopy of the typewritten memoirs of Blanch Alfrey Reeman, the first white child born in Kansas township that included McAllaster in 1888. She includes a description of their sod hose; stories about Indians including the massacred and kidnapping of the "German" family by the Cheyenne in 1870; homestead life; school life; accidental shootings; her mother's death from tuberculosis; winters and storms on the prairie; neighbors, church life; and other family history. 31/Photocopy

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Diary

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Journal

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Settlements, Pioneer life

Search Terms

Diary, Kansas Settlement, Indian Massacre, Cheyenne, Native American, Kansas History

Publication Details

Author

Blanche Dolly Alfrey Reeman

Date Published

9999

Call No.

Western RE

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Condition

Overall Condition

Fair

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Blanche Dolly Alfrey Reeman