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Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
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Item Title
To America from Germany
Author/Creator
Narrator: Arriola, Martha
Gastañaga, Linda
Jones, Suzi, interviewers.
Created/Published
August 01,1978
Notes
Martha Arriola reminisces about traveling alone from Germany to Reno as a young girl in 1930 and finding work on ranches, including a period when she worked as a cook on the 96 Ranch.
Martha Arriola (nee Bruns) was twenty-two when she came to America from the north German state of Oldenburg in 1930. She worked at the Ninety-Six Ranch from 1931 to 1938. She received her citizenship in 1939, after she and her first husband had moved to Reno.
Subject
Activities
Employment
Cooks
Immigration
German Americans
Ninety-Six Ranch
Ethnography
Interviews
Martha Arriola Household
Reno, Nev.
Object Type
Medium
Audio
Language
English
Call Number
NV8-SJ-R21
Digital ID
afc96ran 016
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc96ran.016