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Sauble: Stories from the Flint Hills
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Collected over a period of three years, “Sauble: Stories from the Flint Hills” is a collection of short stories and some tall tales told by Patrick Sauble over his lifetime as a rancher near Cedar Point.
Sauble was born in Newton in 1921 to rancher John Sauble. His grandfather, David Sauble, was one of the earliest settlers in the Flint Hills, having ridden to Kansas with his friend Pete Hoover in the 1850s. The friends worked cattle across south-central Kansas, knew trailblazer Jessie Chisholm and hid from Indians in a dugout on what became the Sauble ranch. Today, the DS Ranch is the oldest continuously operating ranch in Kansas and among the oldest in the United States.
Sauble grew up hearing the family stories of his father and grandfather and extended family members. He started retelling the stories himself while still a boy on the ranch. Sauble attended Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University), from 1939 to 1942 before enlisting in the U.S. Air Force as a pilot. In 1946 he returned to the ranch and took over from his father. Together, with his daughter and son-in-law, Sauble managed the DS Ranch right up until his death at age 98 on Dec. 7, 2019, the 79th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Most of the print in this title is large print.
Collected over a period of three years, “Sauble: Stories from the Flint Hills” is a collection of short stories and some tall tales told by Patrick Sauble over his lifetime as a rancher near Cedar Point.
Sauble was born in Newton in 1921 to rancher John Sauble. His grandfather, David Sauble, was one of the earliest settlers in the Flint Hills, having ridden to Kansas with his friend Pete Hoover in the 1850s. The friends worked cattle across south-central Kansas, knew trailblazer Jessie Chisholm and hid from Indians in a dugout on what became the Sauble ranch. Today, the DS Ranch is the oldest continuously operating ranch in Kansas and among the oldest in the United States.
Sauble grew up hearing the family stories of his father and grandfather and extended family members. He started retelling the stories himself while still a boy on the ranch. Sauble attended Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University), from 1939 to 1942 before enlisting in the U.S. Air Force as a pilot. In 1946 he returned to the ranch and took over from his father. Together, with his daughter and son-in-law, Sauble managed the DS Ranch right up until his death at age 98 on Dec. 7, 2019, the 79th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Most of the print in this title is large print.
195 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2019
About the author
Patrick Henry Sauble
1 bookSauble was born in Newton in 1921 to rancher John Sauble. His grandfather, David Sauble, was one of the earliest settlers in the Flint Hills, having ridden to Kansas with his friend Pete Hoover in the 1850s. The friends worked cattle across south-central Kansas, knew trailblazer Jessie Chisholm and hid from Indians in a dugout on what became the Sauble ranch. Today, the DS Ranch is the oldest continuously operating ranch in Kansas and among the oldest in the United States.
Sauble grew up hearing the family stories of his father and grandfather and extended family members. He started retelling the stories himself while still a boy on the ranch. Sauble attended K-State, then called Kansas State Agricultural College, from 1939 to 1942 before enlisting in the U.S. Air Force as a pilot. Sauble had learned to fly while a student at K-State, taking flying lessons for $20 at the old municipal airport. He went on to fly for the next several years, transporting troops from one end of the country to the other as World War II wound down.
In 1946 he returned to the ranch and took over from his father When the ranch was threatened by condemnation for flood control in the 1940s-1970s, Sauble became an outspoken conservationist. He was recognized by the governor with a Water Legacy Award in 2017 — the only recipient ever given the award for preventing a water project instead of promoting one. Together, with his daughter and son-in-law, Sauble managed the DS Ranch right up until his death at age 98 on Dec. 7, 2019, the 79th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Sauble grew up hearing the family stories of his father and grandfather and extended family members. He started retelling the stories himself while still a boy on the ranch. Sauble attended K-State, then called Kansas State Agricultural College, from 1939 to 1942 before enlisting in the U.S. Air Force as a pilot. Sauble had learned to fly while a student at K-State, taking flying lessons for $20 at the old municipal airport. He went on to fly for the next several years, transporting troops from one end of the country to the other as World War II wound down.
In 1946 he returned to the ranch and took over from his father When the ranch was threatened by condemnation for flood control in the 1940s-1970s, Sauble became an outspoken conservationist. He was recognized by the governor with a Water Legacy Award in 2017 — the only recipient ever given the award for preventing a water project instead of promoting one. Together, with his daughter and son-in-law, Sauble managed the DS Ranch right up until his death at age 98 on Dec. 7, 2019, the 79th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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April 27, 2020
I like history and genealogy; I even like oral traditions. But this collection of "stories" from the patriarch of one of the first ranching families in the Flint Hills of Kansas didn't quite hit the mark for me.
Oh, there are some interesting tales here, and even enough history alluded to that I've looked up a few things. But it should have, first, been advertised specifically as "oral history". The stories are transcriptions, obviously, so they ramble... a lot... They quite often overlap with one another (which is the way we often recount family tales). But they also are questionable with dates and names and some other specifics. (In fairness, there are some footnotes explaining or correcting some items. But not enough)
The stories of his childhood memories were some of the highlights. I enjoyed the parenting of the early 20th century ranch... he says he was placed on a horse early in the morning and just sat or rode it around the yard until lunch and they took him down. This is a 5-year-old; his grandmother would run him out cookies and milk when he yelled.
Don't get me wrong. I think this type of memoir is important to family histories and even local histories, but the information is only "color", the details would have to be researched. Sauble served with the Soil and Conservation committees during the time when many reservoirs were being built in Kansas; his ranch became a huge chicken farm also. Family and friends connections are mentioned and there are quite a few photos. So, important in it's way, but difficult to read with the rambling and contradictions at times.
Oh, there are some interesting tales here, and even enough history alluded to that I've looked up a few things. But it should have, first, been advertised specifically as "oral history". The stories are transcriptions, obviously, so they ramble... a lot... They quite often overlap with one another (which is the way we often recount family tales). But they also are questionable with dates and names and some other specifics. (In fairness, there are some footnotes explaining or correcting some items. But not enough)
The stories of his childhood memories were some of the highlights. I enjoyed the parenting of the early 20th century ranch... he says he was placed on a horse early in the morning and just sat or rode it around the yard until lunch and they took him down. This is a 5-year-old; his grandmother would run him out cookies and milk when he yelled.
Don't get me wrong. I think this type of memoir is important to family histories and even local histories, but the information is only "color", the details would have to be researched. Sauble served with the Soil and Conservation committees during the time when many reservoirs were being built in Kansas; his ranch became a huge chicken farm also. Family and friends connections are mentioned and there are quite a few photos. So, important in it's way, but difficult to read with the rambling and contradictions at times.
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