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Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
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Item Title
Indians at Haying Season
Author/Creator
Narrator: Northrup, Tex
Vennum, Thomas, Jr., interviewer.
Created/Published
July 25,1978
Notes
Tex Northrup, a Northern Paiute Indian, who has worked on the 96 Ranch for over a decade, reminisces about Indian workers and haying encampments in the past.
Tex Northrup is a Northern Paiute from the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation who worked on the Ninety-Six Ranch for a little over ten years. Tex was employed year-round, and for much of his tenure he was foreman of the ranch's buckaroos. The buckaroos were generally seasonal workers, and for the most part also Paiute. Tex left the ranch in 1982 and began working on an outfit nearer McDermitt.
Nowhere is the reduced need for ranch labor more noticeable than in summer haying. The change was felt throughout the postwar era, culminating in the 1960s and 1970s. Tex's description of the Indian workers and haying encampment, of course, pertains to an earlier period when a larger workforce was needed. But the story conveys more than the feel of a labor-intensive era. It also implies the distance between the white workers, who occupied bunkhouses or hay-camp buildings, and the Indians, camped with their families.
Subject
Activities
Haying
Camps
Haying crews
Native Americans
Ethnography
Interviews
Ninety-Six Ranch
Object Type
Medium
Audio
Language
English
Call Number
NV8-TV-R8
Digital ID
afc96ran 003
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc96ran.003