DARE Interview : San Angelo, Texas; Primary Informant TX047

Fieldworker

Boyd, Donald

Date

• 1967

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• TX047: White; male; age: 84 (old); education: some schooling; community type: small city
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 1631-S1).
• Content:
• 00:15 Windmills and wells: worked constructing windmills to pump water [Looking at photos]
• 18:05 Windmill construction [described]
• 27:25 Well drilling [described]
• 32:40 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 1631-S2). [Additional speakers: Informant's daughter]
• Content:
• 00:05 DARE interview
• 01:00 Family history; drove mail back to remote towns
• 05:35 Sheep ranching: was herder large flocks; worked as cowboy, had auto garage 1918; sold and made windmills
• 10:25 Windmills
• 12:35 Retired 1948; local history
• 14:20 School; teacher; language and speech
• 19:00 Cave paintings
• 23:10 Family history: father, uncle, family land
• 27:35 Storm of 1886
• 28:55 Relatives, mother's family
• 31:05 Tape end
• Full Interview 3 (Tape 1632-S1).
• Content:
• 00:05 Family—daughters, grandchildren, brothers and sisters, wife's relatives
• 10:00 Personal philosophy; health
• 14:45 Family
• 15:35 Marble games, mumblepeg, Andy-over
• 18:50 School in past
• 23:50 Childhood, life in the past
• 28:40 Trees
• 29:35 Family
• 32:40 Tape end
• Full Interview 4 (Tape 1632-S2).
• Content:
• 00:05 Friend
• 03:00 Childhood, father
• 09:05 Cattle branding and earmarking
• 12:20 Sheep ranching; goat ranching; sheep shearing
• 16:30 Tape end [Further material on original tape is repeat of TX047-OT1631-S2; that portion of this side was deleted from the UC and DM copies of this side 12/95, from LC 1/96]