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Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
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Item Title
Life in a Bunkhouse
Author/Creator
Narrator: Nichols, Jesse "Tex"
Fleischhauer, Carl
Wilson, William A., interviewers.
Created/Published
April 09,1981
Notes
Jesse "Tex" Nichols compares bunkhouse life in the past and in the present on the Grayson Ranch. Recorded in a barn on the 96 Ranch.
Tex Nichols's reminiscence is set in the bunkhouse on the Grayson Ranch, one of the properties owned by Kansan Willard Garvey. His Nevada Garvey Corporation is the only large absentee owner in Paradise Valley. Its holdings include a number of ranches assembled by the Abel and Curtner Company earlier in the century and fully developed by Henry McCleary and his son Frank from the 1930s through the 1950s. Frank McCleary sold the property to Garvey in the mid-1960s. The ranches have been leased to various corporations through the years. One of the lessee operators of the 1970s was the Nevada First Corporation.
The ranches operated by corporations are often larger than family ranches. (Family corporations own many of the latter; my use of corporation here refers only to absentee-owned corporations.) Since these ranches have no working family members, they are more likely to employ buckaroos. They offer better wages and benefits. They are also more likely to have single buckaroos and, therefore, a bunkhouse. Thus one may argue that corporation ranches help keep certain aspects of tradition alive.
Subject
Buildings
Activities
Bunkhouses
Buckarooing
Grayson Ranch
Ethnography
Interviews
Ninety-Six Ranch
Object Type
Medium
Audio
Language
English
Call Number
NV81-CF-R9
Digital ID
afc96ran 013
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc96ran.013