Color photograph of silver horseshoes stacked up at Ira T. Wines ranch, 2010
Horshoes - Ira T. Wines ranch, 2010

Ranch Family Documentation Project: Oral Histories, 2009-2012

Focusing on ranch life in the Intermountain West, this digital collection of oral histories and photographs features 61 interviews with 78 ranchers from Elko County, Nevada and Utah’s Box Elder, Cache and Rich counties. The physical elements of this collection are housed in the Ranch Family Documentation Project (Folk Coll 49), for which folklorists and archivists from USU’s Special Collections and Archives interviewed ranchers and collected photographs to document and preserve the history and heritage of their unique way of life.

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