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Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
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Item Title
Working Indians in the Early Days
Author/Creator
Narrator: Buckingham, Frederick Charles
Vennum, Thomas, Jr., interviewer.
Created/Published
July 20,1978
Notes
Frederick Charles Buckingham gives an historical description of Native Americans who worked on Paradise Valley ranches gathering firewood, haying, harvest work, and buckarooing.
Fritz Buckingham is Paradise Valley's acknowledged historian. He was born in San Francisco in 1893. His grandfather Charles Kemler founded businesses in Paradise Valley and Winnemucca; family members lived in both California and Nevada. Fritz freely shared his memory, observations, and conjectures with the project team during numerous visits. We recorded five interviews on tape and copied many photographs from his outstanding collection.
Fritz's description of the role of Indians in an earlier day is reinforced by the information in the following selections. Although he is not specific about dates, one has the impression that he is talking about the era beginning in the 1870s, after the end of the Indian raids and lasting until about 1920.
Fritz reports that Indian men gathered firewood and worked on the ranches buckarooing in later years-while the women performed domestic chores. According to his grandson John Grotsch, William Stock employed Indians to shear thousands of sheep near the Quinn River from about 1900-10.
The Native American contribution has changed considerably today. As far as we could determine, the Ninety-Six is the only operation in Paradise Valley that continues to employ Indians. This reduction is in line with the general cutback in both farm and non-farm labor in the valley, for example, there is much less of a market for firewood and the Indians' circumstances on the nearby Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation have improved. It may also reflect some prejudice against Indians.
Subject
Activities
Harvesting
Buckaroos
Haying crews
Native Americans
Ethnography
Interviews
Paradise Valley, Nev.
Object Type
Medium
Audio
Language
English
Call Number
NV8-TV-R4
Digital ID
afc96ran 001
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc96ran.001