Cowboys -- Grouse Creek (U.S.) -- Interviews

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...

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Interview with Wallace Betteridge at his home in Montello, Nevada 25 July 1985 (pt. 1): ranching roping terminology: hard and fast, hoolihan, hondo; depression; ranch stories. Occasional rumbles (microphone handling noises?). Odd noise at 01:20 (insect against microphone?). Insects, birds, and occasional loud traffic. Top and tail cut off. Total duration: 32 minutes.

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Interview with Wallace Betteridge at his home in Montello, Nevada 25 July 1985 (pt. 2): cowboy gear; Montello. Some thumps and rumbles, microphone handling noises. Loud door slam at 12:34. Top and tail cut off. Total duration: 32 minutes.

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Interview with Oren "Dutch" Kimber at his home in Grouse Creek, 26 July 1985 (pt. 1): ranching. Level starts low and is raised. Recording was stopped/restarted at 02:40. Some microphone noises. Top and tail cut off. Total duration: 33 minutes.