Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
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Motion pictures produced from 1945-1965 by rancher Les Stewart:
branding calves in spring, haying in summer, staging a local rodeo and selling the cattle in fall, and feeding cattle and butchering hogs in winter.
Audio selections about working on the ranch: Native Americans and other workers, and the rancher's view of changes in the labor force. Also comments on foodways and a reminiscence of the death of the ranch founder in 1898.
Ranch operations in the 1970s and 1980s are described in an audio program about when cattle are marketed and a video program showing the layout of the ranch and how the land is used through the seasons.
Motion pictures, video clips, and audio selections that document rounding up the cattle in the mountains and driving them back to the home ranch in the valley, sorting the herd, and branding the calves.
Motion pictures, video clips, and audio selections that document changes in haying technology and labor on the Ninety-Six Ranch.
Video clips from the folklife research team that document rigging a saddle, stirrups, spurs, making horsehair rope, trimming rawhide strands for braiding, tying a scarf, and securing a lever-lock gate.
Still photographs of fourteen cattle ranches in the valley proper, including the Ninety-Six Ranch, and of other cattle ranches in the nearby region.
Still photographs of the town and environs of Paradise Valley.
Still photographs of people and scenes in Winnemucca, McDermitt, Lander and Reno, Nevada, and Loyalton, California.
Still photographs of the objects displayed in the exhibition Buckaroos in Paradise, installed at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, from October 1, 1980 to March 31, 1981.
Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982