Ranch life -- Grouse Creek (Utah)

Abstract Interview with Archie and Rhea Toyn at their home in Grouse Creek, 3 July 1985 (pt. 1): Grouse Creek Orchestra: Ivan Kimber (tenor), Rada Kimber (piano), Grant Kimber (sax), Archie Toyn (sax), Lyman Kimber (guitar, banjo, drum, fiddle). 2 track recording, 2 separate microphones. Speakers are somewhat off microphone. Severe microphone handling noise and rumble on right channel. A tape recording of music playing is underneath the interview, and the speakers refer to and discuss the music....

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Interview with Archie and Rhea Toyn at their home in Grouse Creek, 3 July 1985, pt. 2: continued from RHC001 on Grouse Creek Orchestra, with Archie performing. 2 track recording, 2 separate microphones. Singer on right channel. Occasional severe microphone handling noise and rumble on right channel. Tail cut off. Total duration: 33 minutes.

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Interview with Milton Oman at his home in Grouse Creek, 4 July 1985 (pt. 1): Yost; ranching; rodeo Full-track mono tape digitized on 1/2 track stereo playback machine. Hal Cannon (interviewer)is off microphone and fairly quiet. Recorder is starting at around 00:04, and the levels are quite low until around 00:46. Some thumps and low-frequency rumbles throughout. Tail cut off. Total duration: 33 minutes.

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Interview with Milton Oman at his home in Grouse Creek, 4 July 1985 (pt. 2): Mormonism; dances; Burley and Rupert; ranch calendar. Full-track mono tape digitized on 1/2 track stereo playback machine. Hal Cannon (interviewer) is off microphone and fairly quiet. Top cut off. Reel begins with a click/buzz. Total duration: 14 minutes.

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Interview with Doug Tanner at the Max Tanner Ranch in Grouse Creek, 4 July 1985 (pt. 1): ranching; buckaroo clothing. Reel to reel 1/4" 1/2 track stereo (box says "tip to tip-Sennheiser 802"). Top cut off. Left and right channels seem to be out of phase until a large click happens at 02:05, when the channels become in-phase. High frequency ringing pitch occurs in places (tape box mentions wind chimes). Tail cut off. Total duration: 33 minutes.

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Interview with Doug Tanner at the Max Tanner Ranch in Grouse Creek, 4 July 1985 (pt. 2): ranching; LDS Church ranch; Mormonism; civil and religious law; old and new church building. Hal Cannon and C. Fleischhauer interviewing. Reel to reel 1/4" 1/2 track stereo. High-frequency ringing pitch occurs in places, (tape on box mentions wind chimes). Tail cut off. Total duration: 33 minutes.

Abstract Interview with brothers Max, Merlin, & Monte Tanner at Max Tanner's home in Grouse Creek, 5 July 1985 (pt. 1): family history; ranching; Brezeeze Ranch; Indians; Utah Construction; outlaw stories: Sid Paskett and Diamond Field Jack. Substantial amounts of rumble (microphone handling?) and occasional traffic passing by. Children playing and other voices and activity in background. The interviewees are hard to hear over the background noises at times. Interviewer (Hal Cannon) is quite...

Abstract Interview with brothers Max and Merlin Tanner at Max Tanner's home in Grouse Creek, 5 July 1985 (pt. 2): more outlaw stories: Bolly Miller; Mormon Cowboy; Cotton Thomas Basin naming; mining. Substantial amounts of rumble (microphone handling?) and occasional traffic passing by. Children playing and other voices and activity in background. The interviewees are hard to hear over the background noises at times. Interviewer (Hal Cannon)is quite soft. The tape starts with some ambience and...

Abstract Interview with Max Tanner on drive up Thomas Ranch in Nevada. Hal Cannon and Tom Carter interviewing. 11 July 1985: childhood activity; changes in roads, fauna; ranching; fencing. NOTE: too much disturbance in 4wd drive, so after this reel-to-reel tape, switched to cassette tape, see ATC004-008. Top cut off, level very low, and the levels change dramatically as the recordist sets levels. Recorded in a vehicle. Substantial amounts of rumble. Tape stops briefly in mid sentence at times...

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Interview with Thelma & Wallace Betteridge, Raida Kimber, & George Betteridge at Raida Kimber's home (pt. 1): in Grouse Creek, 16 July 1985: Reunion of Betteridge siblings Wallace (79 yrs), George (82 yrs) and Raida (72 yrs); history of childhood and family. Channels are out of phase on tape. Levels shift at beginning of reel. Some low machine noise in background. Occasional low-frequency rumbles. Top and tail cut off. Total duration: 33 minutes.