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Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
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Item Title
Spurs
Author/Creator
Narrator: Stewart, Leslie J.
Narrator: Ahlborn, Richard E.
Gastañaga, Linda
Marshall, Howard W., interviewers.
Created/Published
July 25,1978
Notes
Richard Ahlborn interviews Les Stewart while he demonstrates the purpose of spurs.
Les compares and contrasts a bronc spur for rodeo bucking horses with a spur for use with everyday working horses. The second pair of spurs, however, are not everyday. They are silver-mounted and were made by the Garcia Bit and Spur Company of Elko, Nevada. Guadalupe S. Garcia was born in San Luis Obispo, California, in 1864, worked as a vaquero, and moved to Nevada in 1893. He opened a bit, spur, and saddle shop in Elko in 1896, and soon developed a reputation as a fine craftsman. The company remained in family hands until purchased by the J.M Capriola Company in 1978. In their 1982 catalog, prices for silver-mounted spurs begin at a little more than two hundred dollars. (Rice and Vernam 1975, 132-36; J.M. Capriola Co. 1982, 1; Ward 1958, 229-33)
Subject
Artifacts
Spurs
Horse gear
Ethnography
Motion Pictures
Ninety-Six Ranch
Object Type
Medium
3/4 inch video
Language
English
Call Number
NV78-VT8
Digital ID
afc96ran v028
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc96ran.v028