Recherche dans la collection - Gilchrist Family - Interview

BROWN, Lyal D.

1973-0079

Enregistrement sonore

2 of 2

1963-03

Brown, Lyal (Interviewer)

interviewer, Lyal Brown

Interviews of the Gilchrist family (Joe Gilchrist and his wife, Tom Gilchrist and his wife) ranchers near Milk River, by Lyal Brown, about: how their seafaring father came from Nova Scotia to Maple Creek, Saskatchewan; setting up the ranch; children; education; round-up wagons; types of settlers; cowboy stories; the weather; prairie fires; independence and isolation; relations between homesteaders and ranchers; honesty as a code of the west; childhood summers; festive times; ranch people; entertainment; the family unit; feelings about the country; the story of a cowboy funeral; an old storekeeper; and rustling. This interview was recorded at the Deer Creek ranch. <47mn 15s>

English

Libre

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

With written permission of Donor / Avec la permission écrite du donateur