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miles southwest of Topeka, Kansas. Sometime during his early
age his mother suffered a long illness, and a kindly Indian
woman nursed him back to health and strength. Then by the
age of nine he was hunting and trapping along the Wakarusa.

At the age of twelve he was unacquainted with the alpha-
bet and was teased by his peers. Then at the age of sixteen
he was so ashamed of his ignorance in intellectual areas that
he refused to attend the village school.

After acquiring $600.00 by the age of seventeen he packed
up his belongings and headed for the State Normal School in
Emporia , Kansas. He remained here for three years. In the
fall of 1877 he enrolled in the middle preparatory class at the
State University in Lawrence. He arrived in Lawrence with a
friend their means of transportation being a covered wagon,
Having no place to reside and lacking in funds they situated
their wagon in a ravine near the present site of the Natural
Museum building.

There they lived until the frost fo winter drove then
to a rooming house. Dyche began his college career with the
study of the classics, but his love for nature took him into the

field of the sciences,