Letter to [Wayne] Gard. Iowa City, IA. 1928 Feb. 22.
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Piper, Edwin Ford, 1871-1939
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Edwin Ford Piper was born in 1871 in Auburn, Nebraska, a few miles west of the Missouri River. As farmers moved in and rangeland disappeared, his family moved farther west in Nebraska. While he was growing up, he listened to the songs, rhymes, square dancing calls, prayer meeting calls of the hired hands, hobos, itinerant fiddlers -- anyone who created music. He also learned songs from his mother Lucinda and his sister Ella. These folk expressions had a great effect upon Piper. In 1893, he enter...
Gard, Wayne, 1899-1986
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Author, historian. Born in 1899 in Brocton, Illinois. Worked as a wire editor and foreign correspondent for the Associated Press and on the editorial staff of the Dallas "Morning News" for over 25 years. His books include "Sam Ross," "The Great Buffalo Hunt, " and "Rawhide Texas" and many articles for magazines, such as "American Heritage, " "American Mercury, " and "Reader's Digest." Died in 1986 in Dallas, Texas. From the description of Papers, 1958-1959. (Texas Tech University). W...