Oral history interview with Ruth Roach Salmon, 1984 November 7.

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Salmon, Ruth Scantlin Roach, 1896-1986. Oral history interview with Ruth Roach Salmon, 1984 November 7.

Oral history interview with Ruth Roach Salmon, 1984 November 7.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/140227259

Interview with Ruth Roach Salmon concerning her experiences as a rancher and rodeo performer in Nocona, Texas. Salmon discusses her family background, her work as an extra on a movie western in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, her marriage to Bryant Roach, her employment as a trick rider for Joe Miller's 101 Ranch in Oklahoma, the Miller Brothers' wild west shows, her rodeo tour in Europe in 1914, and her participation in Tom Burnett's European tour in 1924. She also talks about her marriage to Fred Salmon and her entry into ranching at Nocona in 1938, Fred Salmon's family background, ranching activities and shipping cattle to the Fort Worth and Bowie markets, her experiences raising sheep, chickens, hogs, and horses, and a description of the ranch hands.

63, [20] leaves : ill., facsims. ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT