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School in a chuck wagon, Finney County, Kansas

Dates: Between 1870 and 1900

This photograph shows Maude Elliott's first school building; it was used as a chuck wagon where two or three women cooked for a crew of men. The tent was their "living room" which could be as easily moved from place to place as the chuck wagon. A pair of mules was all that was needed to move Maude Elliott's school building around.

School in a chuck wagon, Finney County, Kansas