EPISODE · May 26, 2010 · 12 MIN

Clark Bruster To His Family, Sept.-Nov. 1917

from A Kansas Memory: The Kansas Historical Society Library and Archives Podcast · host Lin Fredericksen

This podcast features excerpts from the letters written home by young Clark Bruster of Waverly, New York during the fall of 1917 while he was training with U. S. Artillery Battery A at Fort Riley, Kansas. Some artillery are still drawn by horses during WWI and Clark describes their drills in detail. He is proud of what an accomplished horseman he has become, but saddened that he is missing the birth of his first niece.

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