Western Folklife Center collection, 1951-2017
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Western Folklife Center
- Title
- Western Folklife Center collection
- Dates
- 1951-2017 (inclusive)19512017
- Quantity
- 44 linear feet, (84 boxes)
- Collection Number
- UUS_FOLK COLL 083
- Summary
- The collection documents the research, activities, creative work, and community networks associated with the Western Folklife Center and broader Western folklife materials.
- Repository
- Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu - Access Restrictions
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No restrictions on access, except: not available through interlibrary loan.
- Languages
- English
Content Description
This collection contains materials documenting cowboy poetry, ranching life histories, and vernacular traditions of the American West, centered on a transfer received in 2025 from the Western Folklife Center. It includes oral histories, poet files, photographs, and regional fieldwork. Materials include audio and video recordings, photographs, printed programs, posters, ephemera, and files related to the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering and associated WFC projects. The collection captures performances, workshops, interviews, educational initiatives, and community traditions from the late twentieth century to the early twenty-first century. Additional materials reflect regional ranching life, occupational traditions, gear-making, horsemanship, and cultural exchanges across the Great Basin and Intermountain West. The collection preserves a wide range of voices and offers insight into contemporary Western vernacular arts, identity, and community practice.
Historical Note
Founded in 1980 in Elko, Nevada, the Western Folklife Center is a nonprofit cultural organization dedicated to documenting and presenting the diverse folklife of the American West. Best known for the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, the WFC supports artists and tradition bearers working in poetry, music, storytelling, ranching occupations, gear-making, and other expressive forms rooted in Western life. The organization has produced fieldwork, recordings, exhibitions, educational programs, and media projects that highlight both historical and contemporary Western traditions. The transfer of materials to Utah State University reflects a long-standing partnership and a shared commitment to preserving and providing access to the cultural record of the region.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from the Western Folklife Center collection must be obtained from the Curator of the Fife Folklore Archives and/or the Special Collections Department Head.
Preferred Citation
Initial Citation:Western Folklife Center collection USU_FOLK083. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.
Following Citations:USU_FOLK083, USUSCA.
Administrative Information
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into 2 series: documents and records, organized by project number; and audio/visual materials.
Acquisition Information
These materials were transferred to USU Special Collection in 2025 by the Western Folklife Center.
Related Materials
Folk Collection 11 – The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Book Collection. This is a growing collection of books on cowboy poetry and related topics. Assembled originally through a grant from the L.J. and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation, this collection continues to build through gifts and library purchases. Each winter this library travels to Elko, Nevada, for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. Folk Collection 11a – Cowboy Poetry and Western Music Cassette Collection. Folk Collection 11b – Cowboy and Western Song Folio and Sheet Music Collection. Folk Collection 11c – Cowboy Poetry and Western Music Disc (Record) Collection. Folk Collection 11d – Cowboy Poetry and Western Music VCR Collection. Folk Collection 11e – Cowboy Poetry and Western Music Compact Disc and DVD Collection. Folk Collection 11f – Western States Cowboy Poetry Collection is a fieldwork collection that grew out of a concerted effort by western state folklorists in the early 1980s to collect, document, and present cowboy poetry and out of this work came the first Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV, in 1985. Folk Collection 11g – The National Cowboy Poetry Collection, includes programs, schedules, posters and other items from the NCPG. This collection continues to have materials added. Folk Collection 11h – Cowboy Poetry Poster Collection. This collection continues to have materials added. Folk Collection 11i – Cowboy / Ranch Ephemera Collection, includes publications, calendars, periodicals that reflect ranching and cowboy culture and images
Detailed Description of the Collection
I. Materials grouped by project number, 1939-2017
- Description: 1010 N.A.R.T. Native American Ranching Traditions
Photographs, release forms, project notes, correspondence, cookbooks, budget
Dates: 1994-1996Container: Box 1 - Description: 1010 N.A.R.T. Native American Ranching Traditions
Photographs, release forms, project notes, correspondence, cookbooks, budget
Dates: 1994-1996Container: Box 2 - Description: 1010 N.A.R.T. Native American Ranching Traditions
Photographs, release forms, project notes, correspondence, cookbooks, budget
Dates: 1994-1996Container: Box 3 - Description: 1010 N.A.R.T. Native American Ranching Traditions
Photographs, release forms, project notes, correspondence, cookbooks, budget
Dates: 1994-1996Container: Box 4 - Description: 1012 Celtic Fieldwork
Files from 1997-1999, fieldwork from Wales, Ireland, England, Scotland, press clippings, photographs, interviews, slides
Dates: 1997-1999Container: Box 5 - Description: 1012 Celtic Fieldwork
Files from 1997-1999, fieldwork from Wales, Ireland, England, Scotland, press clippings, photographs, interviews, slides
Dates: 1997-1999Container: Box 6 - Description: 1012 Celtic Fieldwork
Files from 1997-1999, fieldwork from Wales, Ireland, England, Scotland, press clippings, photographs, interviews, slides
Dates: 1997-1999Container: Box 7 - Description: 1012 Celtic Fieldwork
Files from 1997-1999, fieldwork from Wales, Ireland, England, Scotland, press clippings, photographs, interviews, slides
Dates: 1997-1999Container: Box 8 - Description: 1014 Wyo Pete Collection
Administrative papers, poems, and photographs from and of Wyo Pete
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 9, Folder 1-4 - Description: 1015 Muschetto Family Songs
Songs written by the Muschetto Family
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 9, Folder 5-7 - Description: 1019 Cowboy Miner Productions Collection
Poems written by various authors
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 9, Folder 7-12 - Description: 1020 Mongolia 2001
Photographs, postcard, magazine, articles, newpapers on Mongolian cowboys
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 10 - Description: 1021 Trailing of Sheep
Color slides 1998-2017
Dates: 1998-2017Container: Box 11 - Description: 1021 Trailing of Sheep
Color slides 1998-2017
Dates: 1998-2017Container: Box 12 - Description: 1023 Buck Ramsey Collection
photos of Buck Ramsey, "Cowboys and Indians" 2004 magazine, correspondence, poems, stories
Dates: 2004Container: Box 13, Folder 1-16 - Description: 1024 Charles Badger Clark Collection
Essays, articles, and poems written by/about Badger Clark and photos of Badger Clark and his memorial site
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 13, Folder 17 - Description: 1025 Harry Harker Nevada Poetry Collections
Poems by Harry Harker and postcards
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 13, Folder 18 - Description: 1026 Cowboy Poetry Postcards Collection
Postcards
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 13, Folder 19 - Description: 1023 Buck Ramsey Collection
Five belt buckles
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 14 - Description: 1018 Michael Martin Murphey/Edward S. Curtis Collection
Pictures, placards of Edward S. Curtis, chapters from "The North American Indian"
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 15, Folder 1-11 - Description: 1030 Sheep Ranching Project
Interview notes, transcripts, photographs, stickers, newspapers
Dates: 2002Container: Box 15, Folder 12 - Description: 1043 Lasca Collection
Songs, poems, sheet music, poster
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 15, Folder 13 - Description: 1048 Hispanic Cowboys
Administrative papers, magazines, photographs,Bea Roeder Slides,
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 15, Folder 13-22 - Description: 1028 Great Basin Ranching Traditions
Color slides, transcripts, photo logs, great basin field notes, release forms
Dates: 2000Container: Box 16 - Description: 1029 Family on the Ranch
Photographs by Blanton Owen, photo sheets, color slides
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 17 - Description: 1030 Sheep Ranching Project
Interview notes, transcripts, photographs, stickers, newspapers
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 18 - Description: 1031 James McWilliam Collection
Bawdy cowboy songs, poems, limericks
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 19, Folder 1-7 - Description: 1033 Curley Fletcher Collection
Writings by Curley Fletcher
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 19, Folder 8 - Description: 1034 Jack Loeffler Interviews with Cowboy Poets / 2000
Transcription of interviews conducted by Jack Loeffler
Dates: 2000-2001Container: Box 19, Folder 9-14 - Description: 1035 Felix Kallis Photos Tonopah, Jennings Ranch, Wild Horse Valley - 1939
Collection of Photographs taken by Felix Kallis
Dates: 1939Container: Box 19, Folder 15 - Description: 1037 Barry Olivier / Slim Critchlow Collection
Slim Critchlow cowboy songs, photographs, correspondence, articles, concert flyers, obituraries of Critchlow, Barry Olivier memorandum
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 19, Folder 16-32 - Description: 1038 Jim Griffith Interview Collection
Correspondence, interview transcripts
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 19, Folder 33-35 - Description: 1040 Bruce Kiskaddon Cowboy Poetry Calendar Collection
Bruce Kiskaddon Cowboy Poetry Calendar Collection 1951, 1958, 1959, 2001
Dates: 1951-2001, bulk 1951-1959Container: Box 19, Folder 36-39 - Description: 1042 American Cowboy Poets
Interview transcripts, poster, pamphlets, release form, administrative planning documents, magazine articles
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 20 - Description: 1042 American Cowboy Poets
Interview transcripts, poster, pamphlets, release form, administrative planning documents, magazine articles
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 21 - Description: 1043 Lasca Collection
Songs, poems, sheet music, poster
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 22, Folder 1-2 - Description: 1044 Carolyn Roush Collection
Bio, letters, and "Phil Blood's Leap" handwritten story
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 22, Folder 3 - Description: 1045 California Cowboy Poets Fieldwork Collection
October 1986 interview transcripts, subject index
Dates: 1986Container: Box 22, Folder 4-9 - Description: 1046 Hawai'ian Fieldwork
B&W Photographs with descriptions
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 22, Folder 10 - Description: 1047 Australian Fieldwork
Photographs (possibly by Hal Cannon)
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 22, Folder 11 - Description: 1048 Hispanic Cowboys
Administrative papers, magazines, photographs,Bea Roeder Slides,
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 23 - Description: 1049 Ranch Communications
Posters, articles, scripts, administrative papers, CD, and newspaper clipping, faxes
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 24, Folder 1-6 - Description: 1050 Wild West Weekly Cowboy Songs Collection
Wild West Weekly Cowboy Songs Collection Book No. 1-3
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 24, Folder 7-9 - Description: 1051 National Forest Service Centennial Fieldwork Project Collection (2004-2005)
Release agreements
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 24, Folder 10 - Description: 1053 Paula Morin Honest Horses
Interview transcripts, essays, resumes, emails, and articles
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 25 - Description: 1053 Paula Morin Honest Horses
Interview transcripts, essays, resumes, emails, and articles
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 26 - Description: 1053 Paula Morin Honest Horses
Interview transcripts, essays, resumes, emails, and articles
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 27 - Description: 1053 Paula Morin Honest Horses
Interview transcripts, essays, resumes, emails, and articles
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 28 - Description: 1054 Gear Catalogs
Printed copies of books and catalogs
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 29, Folder 1-8 - Description: 1055 Ranch Life Documentation Collection
interview transcript of Jay Wilde
Dates: 2010Container: Box 29, Folder 9 - Description: 1056 Deep West Project Collection
Administrative papers, proposals, posters, pamphlets, stories, maps, release agreements
Dates: 2004-2008Container: Box 29, Folder 10-19 - Description: 1057 1992 Australia Tour
Photographs of the Cowboy Poets in Australia Tour, sign up sheets
Dates: 1992Container: Box 29, Folder 20-23 - Description: 1058 Fife Folklore Conference
Photographs of people and tapes, Agenda administrative papers
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 29, Folder 24-25 - Description: 1059 Adam Jahiel Photos "The last Cowboy"
Photographs and postcards taken by Adam Jahiel
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 29, Folder 26 - Description: 1060 South American Cultural Exchange Collection
Poems, stories, Photographs, posters, articles, and administrative papers related to the South American Cultural Exchange Collection, The Gaucho - Martin Fierro, "Equitacion Gaucha" by Justo P. Saenz
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 29, Folder 27 - Description: 1061 Ruthe Graham Collection of Cowboy & Military Poetry
Poetry by Ruthe graham
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 29, Folder 28 - Description: 1060 South American Cultural Exchange Collection
"The Gaucho" by Martin Fierro, book
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 30 - Description: 1060 South American Cultural Exchange Collection
"Equitacion Gaucha" by Justo P. Saenz, book
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 31 - Description: 1065 M. Mathers Hoboes
Photographs, contact prints, negatives, notes, correspondence, book
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 32 - Description: 1065 M. Mathers Hoboes
Photographs, contact prints, negatives, notes, correspondence, book
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 33 - Description: 1065 M. Mathers Hoboes
Photographs, contact prints, negatives, notes, correspondence, book
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 34 - Description: 1065 M. Mathers Hoboes
Photographs, contact prints, negatives, notes, correspondence, book
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 35 - Description: 1066 AWSF/Hafleigh Making West Home Project
Administrative papers regarding the AWSF
Dates: 2002-2007Container: Box 36, Folder 1-7 - Description: 1068 AWSF/Hafleigh Making West Home Project
Photographs, books, and posters by and for Heather Hafleigh Collection
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 36, Folder 8-10 - Description: 1070 AWSF/Hafleigh Making West Home Project
Administrative papers, articles, and posters for the Making West Home event, CDs, cook books
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 36, Folder 10-17 - Description: 1071 Tumblewords
Administrative papers, poems, photographs, and press for the Tumblewords activities and events
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 37 - Description: 1072 Beyond Borderlands Project Collection
Articles and notes about Latino culture and vaqueros, awards, art, journal, music lyrics, poems
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 38 - Description: 1074 Liz Dear Collection
Poems, letters, posters, tour booklets, pamphlets, 1984-1992
Dates: 1984-1992Container: Box 39, Folder 1-32 - Description: 1075 Prairie to Provence Cultural Exchange Collection
Prairie to Provence Cultural Exhange information and administrative papers, French Buckaroo Tradition pamphlets, photographs, newspapers
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 39, Folder 33 - Description: 1076 Steve Green Roadside Death Memorials Collection/Highway Death Memorials
Collection of newspaper clippings and photographs regarding Steve Green's Memorial site
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 39, Folder 34-39 - Description: 1077 Hobo Rendezvous 2000
Administrative papers and press regarding the Hobo Rendezvous
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 39, Folder 40-44 - Description: 1078 Keynote Addresses Chuck Haas
Blank book, miscellaneous paper with tick marks
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 40 - Description: 1080 Chuck Haas
Photographs, poems, book by Chuch Haas, notebook
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 41 - Description: 1082 T.M. (Terry) Gwinn Collection / Prose
Picture of newspaper clipping, stories, poems
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 42, Folder 1-2 - Description: 1083 Kay Coombs Colorado Plateau Ranching Memoirs / Book 2 (single sided)
Book written by Kay Coombs detailing memories from his ranch, poems, administrative papers
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 42, Folder 3-13 - Description: 1085 National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest at Weiser, Idaho 1967-1976
Photo scans of tapes, administrative papers, track list, correspondence, Harold Allen obituary, articles, National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest program 1955-2010
Dates: 1955-2010, bulk 1967-1976Container: Box 43 - Description: 1085 National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest at Weiser, Idaho 1967-1976
Photo scans of tapes, administrative papers, track list, correspondence, Harold Allen obituary, articles, National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest program 1955-2011
Dates: 1955-2011, bulk 1967-1976Container: Box 44 - Description: 1085 National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest at Weiser, Idaho 1967-1976
Photo scans of tapes, administrative papers, track list, correspondence, Harold Allen obituary, articles, National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest program 1955-2012
Dates: 1955-2012, bulk 1967-1976Container: Box 45 - Description: 1085 National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest at Weiser, Idaho 1967-1976
Photo scans of tapes, administrative papers, track list, correspondence, Harold Allen obituary, articles, National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest program 1955-2013
Dates: 1955-2013, bulk 1967-1976Container: Box 46 - Description: 1065 M. Mathers Hoboes
Photographs, contact prints, negatives, notes, correspondence, book
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 47 - Description: 1065 M. Mathers Hoboes
Photographs, contact prints, negatives, notes, correspondence, book
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 48 - Description: 1065 M. Mathers Hoboes
Photographs, contact prints, negatives, notes, correspondence, book
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 49 - Description: 1065 M. Mathers Hoboes
Photographs, contact prints, negatives, notes, correspondence, book
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 50 - Description: 1065 M. Mathers Hoboes
Photographs, contact prints, negatives, notes, correspondence, book
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 51 - Description: 1065 M. Mathers Hoboes
Photographs, contact prints, negatives, notes, correspondence, book
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 52 - Description: 1065 M. Mathers Hoboes
Photographs, contact prints, negatives, notes, correspondence, book
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 53 - Description: 1086 Martin Drivdahl Corrals and Cattle Chutes Photographs Collection
Old Cattle Chutes and Corrals From New Mexico to Montana b Martin R. Dtivdahl
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 54, Folder 1 - Description: 1087 Snake River Outlaws Collection
Article, posters, newspapers, and photographs related to the Snake River Outlaws collection
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 54, Folder 2-3 - Description: 1089 Judy Trotter Western Sheet Music
Sheet music with western themes
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 54, Folder 4 - Description: 1092 "Utah Cowboy" Western Songs Folio
Utah Cowboy's Album of Songs
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 54, Folder 5 - Description: 1093 Henry McNamara Western Poetry Collection
Poems written by Henry McNamara
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 54, Folder 6 - Description: 1095 Sylvia Rogier Cowboy & Western Picture Postcards Collections
Postcards with cowboy themes
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 54, Folder 7 - Description: 1097 America Works
interview logs, release forms
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 54, Folder 8-13 - Description: 1098 North Dakota "Local Legacies" and Cowboy Poetry Collection
Photographs, poems, essays, administrative forms, and posters for Dakota Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 54, Folder 14-15 - Description: 1099 Carla Wulfsberg Collection of Gaucho and Tango Sheet Music
Gaucho and Tango Sheet music
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 54, Folder 16 - Description: 1096 J.R. Williams Cartoon Collection
J.R. Williams cartoon scrapbooks, stray cartoon scraps, and newspaper article print (titled "Good News for Everyone: Jim Williams is Going to Keep on Drawing 'Out Our Way'"
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 55 - Description: 1096 J.R. Williams Cartoon Collection
J.R. Williams cartoon scrapbooks, stray cartoon scraps, and newspaper article print (titled "Good News for Everyone: Jim Williams is Going to Keep on Drawing 'Out Our Way'"
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 56 - Description: 1096 J.R. Williams Cartoon Collection
J.R. Williams cartoon scrapbooks, stray cartoon scraps, and newspaper article print (titled "Good News for Everyone: Jim Williams is Going to Keep on Drawing 'Out Our Way'"
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 57 - Description: 1096 J.R. Williams Cartoon Collection
J.R. Williams cartoon scrapbooks, stray cartoon scraps, and newspaper article print (titled "Good News for Everyone: Jim Williams is Going to Keep on Drawing 'Out Our Way'"
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 58 - Description: 1104 Hungarian Cultural Exchange Collection
Books, photographs, and administrative papers relating to research for Hungarian program during the 2011 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Dates: 2011Container: Box 59 - Description: 1105 Florida and Louisiana Cowboy Cultural Exchange Collection
Poems, books, and administrative papers related to the Florida and Louisiana Cowboy Cultural Exchange
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 60, Folder 1-2 - Description: 1109 Charlie Seemann Music Sheet Collection
Collection of unsorted music sheets
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 60, Folder 3 - Description: 1108 Charles Kortes Collection
Poems written by Charles Kortes and a brown bag
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 61 - Description: 1108 Charles Kortes Collection
Poems written by Charles Kortes and a brown bag
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 62 - Description: 1108 Charles Kortes Collection
Poems written by Charles Kortes and a brown bag
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 63 - Description: 1108 Charles Kortes Collection
Poems written by Charles Kortes and a brown bag
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 64 - Description: 1108 Charles Kortes Collection
Poems written by Charles Kortes and a brown bag
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 65 - Description: 1108 Charles Kortes Collection
Poems written by Charles Kortes and a brown bag
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 66 - Description: 1108 Charles Kortes Collection
Poems written by Charles Kortes and a brown bag
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 67 - Description: 1109 Charlie Seemann Music Sheet Collection
Collection of unsorted music sheets
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 68 - Description: 1109 Charlie Seemann Music Sheet Collection
Collection of unsorted music sheets
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 69 - Description: 1109 Charlie Seemann Music Sheet Collection
Collection of unsorted music sheets
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 70 - Description: 1111 Cowboy Business Cards
Collection of cowboy business cards
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 71, Folder 1 - Description: 1112 Della Johns Collections
Children's story by Della Johns and donated for silent auction
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 71, Folder 2 - Description: 1113 Charlie Seeman FSA Photographs Project
Black and white photos
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 71, Folder 3-8 - Description: 1114 Bob Kisken Collection
Black and white photos
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 71, Folder 9-10 - Description: A. Vocabulario y Refranero Criollo - Gauchos
Creole Dictionary
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 72 - Description: B. Trail Dust by Richard Alan GibfordDates: undatedContainer: Box 73
II. Audio/visual and digital materials, 1959-2016
- Description: VHS
BAT/7 Asian-Indian Concert 1-2, Taiko Drum Group 1-2, Continental Harmony Celebrating America Through Music, Men of Worth Scottish Concert, Mongolia, I am an Indian Cultural Workshop Winston Wuttunee, Danza de la Carrizo dila Juarez, The Spirit of Fort Douglas, Hand Games, Vaquero The Sonora Cowboy, Welcome as a Spring Rain, Down an Old Road The Poetic Life of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, Ranch Hand, What is the Ideal Woman, Black Dance America, Convention Center Real Women 1-2, Trailing of the Sheep 1-6, Riders of the Mongolian Steppe, Mongolia Nomadic Culture Folklife Traditions, Moriaadir Colima, Navajo Song and Dance, Connemara Ponies, Vela Luka Croatian Dancers, Naadam Festival Horse Treatment 1-2, Vela Luka Croatian Dance Ensemble, Opening Doors Through Culture and Language: One Woman's Journey, Trailing of the Sheep Promotional Piece, Mongolia Performance with horses
Dates: 1999-2006Container: Box 74, Item 1-37 - Description: VHS
La Charreada!, Vaquero The Sonora Cowboy, Hatiya Voices of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Los Mineros and Vaquero, Lao and Hmong Singing, Vela Luka Croation Singers and Dancers, Hal Cannon Oh Swallow Me Whole, Convention Center Real Women 1-2, Real Women, Mongolian Cultural Circus, Leargas Irish TV, Peggy Malone 1-2, Discover Utah!, John McKuen's Music of the Wild West, Katie Kidwell presents a cowboy and native culture show.
Dates: 1999-2006Container: Box 75, Item 1-17 - Description: CD
(54 CDs) Snake River Outlaws, Snake River Outlaws Sunshine 1-2, Snake River Outlaws Chicken Inn, Trailing of the Sheep 1-4, Fiddlin's Pete Watercott, Jack Loeffler Sheep Logs, The Bush Poet 1-2, Jim Haynes, Joni Harms Cowgirl Dreams, Guy Clark Keepers, Charlie Seemann Photos from South America, Bonnie Chase Interview, Dorothea Purdy Interview, Frank Philip Interview, Echo Roy Interview, Myron and Betty Jarvis Interview, Sharon O'Toole Interview, Pat O'Toole Interview, George Salisbury Interview 1-2, Laurie Rich Interview 1-2, Patty Miller Interview, Joseba Chertudi Interview, Mr. and Mrs. Jean Etcheverry Interview, Robert Oxaranga Interview, Martin Goikoetxea Interview, Florence Etcheverry, Linda Hussa Interview 1-2, Buster Dufurrena Interview 1-2, Linda Dufurrena, Henry Etcheverry, John Peavey Interview, Jan Shepherd Interview, Avel Diaz Interview, Cathy Clarkson Interview, Rose Oxarango Interview 1-2, Mongolian for Adventurers, Tribe, Horse of the Mongolian Steppe, Jim Macey Mongolian Trip 1-2, Mongolian Traditional 1-5, Black Horse, Mongolian Ages, Badger Hole and Elizabeth Ebert photos, Sounds of Mongolia
Dates: 2000-2008Container: Box 75, Item 18-71 - Description: DVD
(46 DVDs) Buffalo Wy 1-2, Bob Kisken Jerrey Hily, Kisken Hats, Kisken Brothels, Bob Kisken Women's PR, Lewistown 1-2, Blue Grass, Lou Elano Women's RR Final 1-3, Bordello Photos, untitled, Wyoming Backroads, Cattle Drive, Dayton Hyde book Review, Chugusater Chili, Robinson WE, midwinter colorado bluegrass, Cowboy slons, Golden Co Poetry 1-2, North Plaite Bluegrass, Pierre Statue, Buffalo Biu Ranch, Encampment WY 1-2, Bio Horn, Casey Tibbs Rodeo Center, Chris Le Doux Kayce Loy, 17th Annual Badger Clark Hot Springs, Cowboy Signs 1-2, Grand Encampment Gathering, 15th Annual Bluegrass, Prison WY, Loranie, South America Trip, Sonora Fieldwork Photos 1-2, Eliko, Poetry, Casper WY, Weiser NOTF Reels 1-2
Dates: 2004-2015Container: Box 75, Item 72-117 - Description: Mini Disc MD
Peter Pennchamp Interview, Deep West Steve Green with Hugo Morales, John Perry Boxlow, Jerry Yoshitomi Interview
Dates: 2004Container: Box 76, Item 1-4 - Description: Mini Digital videocassette MDV
(12 MDVs) Trailing of the Sheep 2013 1-2, 2011 1-4, 2009 1-2, Tule-Keddy Branding 1-3, Sonora Fieldwork Meg Glaser
Dates: 2001-2013Container: Box 76, Item 5-16 - Description: Cassette tapes
(24 Cassettes) John and Diane Peavey, John Dofflemeyer, Randy Reiman, Navajo Singers, Cannon Tongan Ward, Sage Point Singers, Ruzice: Songs of Old Croatia, Tongan Concert, Ni'ihau Hymn Singing, The Happy Wanderers, United Black Voices Gospel Choir, San Juan Pueblo Dances, San Juan Pueblo Singers, Oklahoma Native American Hymn Singers, T'ohdineezhee Singers 1-2, Boojum Expeditions, Floyd Traynor, Ruzice Seattle, Cliff Yaborough, Sue Arizona Fieldwork, Native American Ranching Traditions Project 1-2, Just Real Plain But it Works
Dates: 1982-2001Container: Box 76, Item 17-40 - Description: Mini Digital videocassette
Oregon V-Tapes 1-6; Nevada V-Tapes 1-3; Cowboy Poetry Gathering Evening of 1/27/94, Blake Smith; Cowboy Poetry Gathering Eve. 1/27/94, Real Women (1st showing), Craig Wylson; Trailing of the Sheep 1-6, Fri-Sat, Oct. 14, 2000; Bat/7 Asian Indian Program, 5/20/2000; Trailing of the Sheep 2011 Tape 1a
Dates: 1994-2011Container: Box 77, Item 1-19 - Description: Cassette tapes
(19 Casettes) Italian Singers of Rock Springs; First Samoan Assembly of God Church, Seattle, 2/18/90; Combined Greek Orthodox Choirs of Seattle, 2/15/90; Vela Luka Chorus 11/28/90; Vietnamese Christian Fellowship Choir Rehearsal, Seattle 2/18/1990; Seattle Samoans Chorus; Swedish Women's Chorus of Seattle, July 1990; Hecho en Utah Vol. 1, Latin American Music; West African Music/Poetry; Cowboy Music of Northeast Brazil; Italian Singers of Rock Springs, Wyoming; Shumway-Kartchener Family; J.B. Dreadfulwater and the Cherokee Baptist Church; Olivier/Critchlow Concert at John Hinkle Ampitheatre tape B, 9/27/1959; Slim Critchlow interview, 6/13/59; 1959 Northgate Session, Van Ronk/Critchlow/Olivier, 3/7/1959; Lucia Julfest, Salt Lake City Swedish Heritage Society; Ethnic Choir of Kansas City, KS: Polka Mass, Ethnic Hymns; Slim Critchlow Vol. II, Selections from Reel Tapes 1963
Dates: 1959-1991Container: Box 77, Item 20-38 - Description: Floppy disk
Peter Delony Field Notes, Native American Ranching 1999; J. Loefler Sheep, 4/20-5/11/02
Dates: 1999-2002Container: Box 78, Item 1-2 - Description: Cassette tapes
(31 Cassettes) Bette and Buck Ramsey Coll 5-10; Wally McRae/Gary Nabhan w/ Jack Loeffler, 1/28/00; Cliff Yarborough, 11/12/90; Doukhobor Talent Night, Brilliant, British Columbia; San Fransisco Chinese Children's Chorus; Doukhobor Prayer Meeting, British Columbia; Real Women Buck Bales 1, Teresa Jordan at the 10th Cowboy Poetry Gathering; Linda Hussa w/Jack Loeffler, 1/28/00; Linda Hasselstrom with Jack Loeffler, 1/29/00; Paul Zarzyski with Jack Loeffler, 1/29/00; Lyn Denayeyer and Yvonne Hollehbeck, 2/02/01; Orval E. Fochtman, Mr. Shorty and others, 2008; Orval E. Fochtman, 1998; Orval E. Fochtman, 1986; Don Hedgepeth, 2/02/01; Real Women pt. II w/Sue Wallis, 10th Cowboy Poetry Gathering; Elizabeth Ebert, 2/03/01; Orval E. Focthman, Roundup in the Spring and others, 1/10/08; USCC Friendship Choir (Russian Doukhobors); Ernie Marsh and Mark Dahl, 2/04/01; Norwegian Male Chorus of Seattle; Cor Cymraeg (Welsh Choir of Seattle), 2/14/90; Doukhobor Talent Night #2; Magna Hispanic Choir, Cannon 2nd Ward (Tongan) Mauluulu; Frohsinn (German Male Chorus) of Seattle, 2/21/90; Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption, Seattle Ca
Dates: 1989-2008Container: Box 78, Item 3-33 - Description: Mini Digital videocassette MDV
Zuni #1: Corn Grinding, Zuni #2: Corn Grinding, Hairy Woman, Turkey Girl, Zuni #3: Intro, seasons, Donna, Ron-fiddle and flute, Zuni #4: social music, pow wow, jam, Zuni #5: girls story circle, Zuni #6: seasons, Zuni #7: Big Feast, Paul jokes, Zuni #8, Zuni #9: Story Circle 2; Tule-Keddy Branding 1; Tule-Keddy Turn-Out; Hal Cannon w/Leonard Little Finger; Trailing of the Sheep 7, Oct. 15, 2000; Mongol Mod Tourist Performances-Edited Version; Shivert Mongolia; Zuni Perfomances 2/10/98; Temple Grandin 2/1/4 (no audio)
Dates: 1998-2014Container: Box 79, Item 1-16 - Description: Cassette tapes
(19 Cassettes) Slim Critchlow 1-2, 5-11; Slim Critchlow Performance Tapes, C-L; Slim Critchlow Interview, Ca. 1964, 12/9/67; Bob McCarl Native American Fieldwork, '94-Owyhee Tapes 1-4, 6, 9; Tohono O'odham Fieldwork, '94, 2-4; Norwegian Male Chorus 2/12/90
Dates: 1963-1994Container: Box 79, Item 17-35 - Description: Mini Digital videocassette MDV
Trailing of the Sheep 2009 Tape 2; Trailing of the Sheep 2012 Tapes 1-2, Friday Eve. Snow tapes 1-2; Trailing of the Sheep 2013 tapes 1-2; Trailing of the Sheep 2014: Friday Eve. w/Hank Vogler, cam 1 tapes 1-2, cam 2 tapes 1-2; Trailing of the Sheep 2015, Ketchum, ID, Tapes 1-4; Trailing of the Sheep promo segment; Women Writing the West, Trailing of the Sheep 2011, tapes 1-5; BAT 7 Asian Indians 1-2, May 19-20, 2000; TOS 2012; Schutte Family Footage; Keddy Ranch Branding 2001 Footage by Steve Green; Vaquero: The Sonoran Cowboy
Dates: 2000-2015Container: Box 80, Item 1-24 - Description: Cassette tapes
(21 Cassettes) William A. "Bert" Wilson interviews 1-3; Buck Ramsey, KUT interviews 1-2; NPR Crossroads: Native American Cowboys; Buck Ramsey: Assorted Songs and Jingles; Buck Ramsey: Misc. Songs; Hal Cannon, Carol Edison, Craig Miller, 4/3/03 1-4; Cannon, Edison, Miller interview 1-2; Hal Cannon, T. Jordan, The Open Road: Grand Canyon; Slim Critchlow Selections 1953/1963 "reel" tapes; Slim Critchlow 4/13/1963 session 3-4; Ruze Dalmatinke; Vera Luka Choir; Edison, Miller, Stanley interview, 4/3/03 1-2
Dates: 1963-2003Container: Box 80, Item 25-45 - Description: Cassette tapes
Waddie Mitchell w/Jack Loeffler, 1/26/00 1-2; The Bush Poets Live; Taos Pueblo Round Dance Songs; Cowboy Poet Interviews w/Jack Loeffler, 1/27/00 1-2; Bette and Buck Ramsey Collection 1-4; Real Women Buck Bales at the 10th Cowboy Poetry Gathering 1-2, 2 copies; Ranch Women Poets, 1/30/93, Colorado Poets, 1/30/93; Cowboy Jubilee w/Hal Cannon, 1-2; Tom and Marie McCauley, 10/18/80 1-3; Tom and Marie McCauley, 10/20/90; Tom and Marie McCauley, 10/31/90 1-2; Tom McCauley and Noel Rankin, 10/18/90; Terry and Mary Riggs, 9/6/00; Polynesian Youth Choir of Seattle; Svea Male Chorus of Seattle; Elizabeth and Patricia Jones w/Yvonne Oliver, 11/2/90; Floyd Traynor 1+2, 11/10/90; Gu-Achi Fiddlers, Old time O'oodham Fiddle Music; Sunny Martin interview, 9/13/00; Cisco Band Tapago Chicken Scratch; Rodney Mike, 9/13/00; Andy Manzanares, musician, 10/3/92; Angelo and Emilia Tognoni, 9/9/00; John O'Loughlin, 11-10-90; Kent Lee, Gail Taylor, 11-10-90; E. Jones, P. Jones, Y. Oliver, 11/2/90; Jean Ng, 9/10/00; Pow-Wow-Indian Walk-in Cneter, Liberty 3rd Ward Tongan Choir, Hispanic Choir, Vallejos Family
Dates: 1980-1993Container: Box 81, Item 1-34 - Description: Vinyl records
The Deseret String Band; American Folk Songs for Christmas; Eck Robertson: Famous Cowboy Fiddler; Harry McClintock: Hallelujah! I'm a Bum; Carl T. Sprague: Folk Variety; Goebel Reeves: The Texas Drifter; Fresh Oldtime String Band Music by Mike Seeger; Tom Paley, John Cohen, and Mike Seeger: Sing Songs of the New Lost City Ramblers; Elaine Thatcher; Waddie Mitchell: Tradition; Marilynn Powell Greene: Just For Kicks; Marilyn Powell Greene: Musing on Mules; Ted Egan: The Overlanders; Ted Egan: Rodeo Australia; Turtle Dance Songs of San Juan Pueblo; Zuni Fair Live; Ditch-Cleaning and Picnic Songs of Picuris Pueblo; The Parker Sisters: Our Best to You; Sounds of the Tongan United Methodist Church Choir of Salt Lake City; Adolph Lesser: Old Time Wedding Favorites; Bukovina Song and Dance Ensemble; Bicentennial Ethnic Song Festival of Seattle; European Ethnic Song Festival of Seattle; The Ruzice Folk Choir: Songs of Old Croatia; Chesta E La Voci Ca Canuscitte (This is the Voice You Know): Southern Italian Mountain Music; La Baronessa Di Carini: Sicilian Traditional Songs and Music
Dates: 1971-1989Container: Box 82, Item 1-26 - Description: Vinyl records
LDS Tongan Choir of Salt Lake City; You Can Tell the World About This; National Old Time Fiddlers' Folk Music Contest and Festival; Oldtime Fiddling and Other Folk Music, 1 record from every year from 1964-1978; Bart Trotter: On the Fiddle; Bart Trotter: Playing it Hot; Famous Country Fiddlin'; Folk Fiddlin' Left Handed Style; Loyd Wanzer: Masters Left Hand; Loyd Wanzer's Waltz Wonderland; Wanzer's Woodshed; Horse Sense: Fences, Barbed Wire, and Walls; Horse Sense: Songs of the Western Soul; Hootenanny Hoedown
Dates: 1964-1985Container: Box 83, Item 1-29 - Description: Interview notes and log
notes on the Sheep Camp interviews and a log on the Trailing of the Sheep
Dates: 2015-2016Container: Box 84, Item 1 - Description: SD card
(3 SD cards) Sheep Camp Audio Interviews; Friday Night and Starbucks video footage
Dates: 2015-2016Container: Box 84, Item 2-5 - Description: External hard drive
Consolidated Trailing of the Sheep footage from 2015-2016
Dates: 2015-2016Container: Box 84, Item 6 - Description: Film reel
Eastman 16mm Safety Film on sheep and cattle ranching
Dates: undatedContainer: Box 84, Item 7
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Subject Terms
- Cowboys--Songs and music.
- Cowboys--West (U.S.)--Folklore.
- Folk music--West (U.S.)--History--Sources.
- Oral history
