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Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
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Item Title
Working on the 96 Ranch
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 working for Les Stewart.
The relationship between worker and boss can be trying for anyone, and when the two come from different cultures, the matter is especially difficult. In this selection, Tex Northrup delineates his working relationship with Les Stewart. Since Northrup, an Indian, is talking to a white outsider about his white employer, his circumspection and positive emphasis are easily understood. Northrup, like most Northern Paiutes, is fully bilingual. This can be taken as a sign of his continuing loyalty to native traditions and his adaptation to bicultural circumstances. One evening, during a break in our filming at the Bradshaw Camp, Northrup turned to me and spontaneously extolled buckaroo work. Every time one began to tire of some phase of the work, he said, the season changed and the tasks changed with it. He said this suited him perfectly.
Subject
Activities
Stewart, Les
Buckaroos
Ninety-Six Ranch
Ethnography
Interviews
Ninety-Six Ranch
Object Type
Medium
Audio
Language
English
Call Number
NV8-TV-R8
Digital ID
afc96ran 006
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc96ran.006