Uncle Henry's Farm
also the Kansas farm-house · Dorothy's Kansas home · the old Kansas farm
The small, poor farm on the Kansas prairie where Dorothy lives with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em, from which the cyclone carries her off and to which she keeps coming home.
First named in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, ch. 1
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife.
Where this is
placed In our world worked out
read out of the chapters cited on this page, not stated in any one sentence of them
'Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.'
What the books say it is
size one-room house 1 chapter
There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, ch. 1
colour dull and gray 1 chapter
Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray as everything else.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, ch. 1
appearance rebuilt after the cyclone, and mortgaged 1 chapter
Once a cyclone had carried away Uncle Henry's house, so that he was obliged to build another; and as he was a poor man he had to mortgage his farm to get the money to pay for the new house.
The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 2