DARE Interview : Comstock, Texas; Primary Informant TX024

Fieldworker

Boyd, Donald

Date

• 1967

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• TX024: White; male; age: 79 (old); education: grade school; community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 1606-S1). [Additional speakers: Informant's grandson]
• Content:
• [Background/side conversations occur throughout all six recordings] 00:20 Father came 1883 to ranch, picket house, thatching, lumber
• 07:45 Wild cattle [19th century], fences; 10:50 Working cattle [roundup]
• 13:50 Branding time; steers; water holes
• 17:15 He bought 2 small ranches; started working cattle 1901
• 19:35 1884 drought; drifting cattle
• 23:40 Local person in past
• 26:30 Food, cooking utensils, wildlife
• 30:10 Coyotes in another area
• 32:25 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 1606-S2). [Additional speakers: Informant's grandson]
• Content:
• 00:05 Changes in vegetation and wildlife locally, dogs
• 08:55 Hogs—domestic and wild
• 12:40 Fencing, laborers
• 14:20 Account of human bones found on ranch
• 20:20 School—one-room school, marble games, schoolmates
• 32:25 Tape end
• Full Interview 3 (Tape 1607-S1). [Additional speakers: Informant's grandson]
• Content:
• 00:05 Cowboy life; bronco riding account
• 09:55 Branding cattle, brands
• 20:35 Bears (in the past)
• 21:35 Uvalde in the past, local people in Uvalde
• 26:00 Outlaws in the past
• 32:05 Tape end
• Full Interview 4 (Tape 1607-S2). [Additional speakers: Informant's grandson]
• Content:
• 00:05 A hanging in the past, stories about outlaws, Roy and Sam Bean
• 11:40 Story about bear hunting by local person, story about a panther
• 19:15 Local hail, fort, Indians (in past)
• 25:55 Civil Rights laws, Earl Warren, Kennedy assassination
• 27:35 Train service in past, wagons, automobiles
• 29:35 Uvalde history
• 32:00 Tape end
• Full Interview 5 (Tape 1608-S1). [Additional speakers: Informant's grandson]
• Content:
• 00:15 Vegetation, plants
• 02:55 Local person in past, saloons, fights
• 06:10 Gambling laws, grand jury (in past)
• 10:35 Sheep herding and ranching
• 25:50 Period of the Mexican Revolution
• 29:10 Currency
• 30:20 Transportation in past
• 31:00 Horse ranching, raising mules
• 32:05 Tape end
• Full Interview 6 (Tape 1608-S2). [Additional speakers: Informant’s grandson, Adult female]
• Content:
• 00:05 Horse ranching
• 02:45 Breaking horses
• 06:10 Raising and breeding mules
• 13:50 Sheep ranching
• 25:00 Church, real estate values
• 26:30 Digging a well
• 30:40 Tape end