DARE Interview : Sterling, Colorado; Primary Informant CO004

Fieldworker

VanDyke, Patt

Date

• 1967

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• CO004: White; male; age: 83 (old); education: grade school; community type: small city
• CO005: White; male; education: grade school; community type: small city
• CO006: White; female; age: 84 (old); education: high school; community type: small city
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0181-S1P1). [Additional speakers: CO005, CO006]
• Content:
• 00:25 Discuss and describe early brands, and describe different types of brands
• 04:00 Ways to heat a brand—gas-operated, use forge like a smith. Cattle range
• 06:50 Separating mixed cattle at a roundup
• 08:45 Describe a running iron, a small portable brand used in field and by rustlers
• 10:30 Peeling of a brand, other ways to mark cattle. Problems with infection, infestation
• 14:05 Going on roundup, dealing with stampedes
• 16:25 Breeds of cattle
• 20:05 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0181-S1P2). [Additional speakers: CO005, CO006]
• Content:
• 00:05 Bodies of Angus and Hereford cattle
• 01:15 Seeing men butcher a cow, and later discovering that it belonged to employer
• 03:45 Indignation at seeing only part of a cow rustled—waste of meat. Local buffalo story
• 06:25 Still see buffalo horns on range
• 07:55 Losing control of herd because part of staff searching for missing horses
• 11:05 Reps responsible for cattle of certain brands, driving cattle near water, old long drives
• 15:25 Different places around here where riders are posted, losing cattle en route
• 18:50 Using a lead cow to get herd over river or bridge
• 22:20 Tape end