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Facts for the Quilt

Log cabin in Duenweg, Missouri

Mama, Papa, and the six children: Stella, Opal, Kenneth, Essie, Jack, and Violet

Papa making the wagon into a magic ship

Mama packing supplies for the trip from Missiouri to Kansas

Prairie with wolves, coyotes, foxes, and the covered wagon and mules

Family sitting around the campfire at night

Two-story house in Kansas

Orchard with lots of apple trees

Tornado following a big river that ran between their house and the town

Children in a one-room schoolhouse

Papa chopping down a small tree with bare branches

Mama cutting pictures from a Sears and Roebuck catalog and children hanging the pictures on the tree

Fields of hay, wheat, and corn

Drought showing fields turned to dust and a river without water

Papa giving animals to the neighbors

Family heading south to Oklahoma

Essie's grandma telling stories to Essie and her brothers and sisters

Family traveling to Big Heart, Oklahoma

Field with oil derricks

Big Heart with a hotel, bank, and stores

Papa and the boys working in the oil fields

Grandma Essie waiting on tables at the Black Gold Restaurant

Grandma Essie's family home in Missouri after returning from Oklahoma

Big fields of stawberry plants

Grandma Essie and the neighbor girl picking strawberries

Taking strawberries to the train station for shipment to the other cities and towns

Papa breaking up the old covered wagon

Papa making a table and chairs from the wood of the covered wagon

Grandma Essie sitting on the swing made from the covered wagon


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Last updated on April 4, 1997
Maintained by John L. Day
<jday@umd5.umd.edu>