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Friday, February 2 • 1:00pm - 2:15pm
Stories from Buckaroo Country

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Despite the great distances between ranches in northern Nevada, many of these cowboys have worked with each other at one time or another. Tales of pranks, jokes, wrecks, heroes, and horses will surely abound. Meet Shoshone-Paiute buckaroo Joe Blossom (Owyhee/Lee, NV); retired YP Ranch cowboss Jerry Chapin (Battle Mountain, NV); and cowboy/cowboss/ranch manager Doug Groves (IL, YP and TS ranches). Ted Howard, buckaroo and cultural specialist for the Duck Valley Indian tribe, Owyhee, NV, serves as wrangler and host.


Speakers & Panelists
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Joe Blossom

Joe Blossom of Lee, Nevada, was born March 8, 1944 in Owyhee to Wayne and Rosie Adams. Wayne had a homestead on the Owhyee Duck Valley Reservation with a few head of cattle. At fourteen Joe went to Battle Mountain for high school, and after school he worked on the Saval Ranch in Buffallo... Read More →
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Jerry Chapin

Jerry Chapin was born the youngest of five brothers in Elko, Nevada October 24, 1938 to Ed Chapin and Alice McKnight Chapin. He grew up on ranches in Northern Nevada: the Saval Ranch at Northfork, Hot Springs at Golconda, and Cord Ranch at Jiggs. Jerry's father died when Jerry was... Read More →
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Doug Groves

Cowboy/cowboss/ranch manager Doug Groves (the IL, YP and TS ranches of Northeastern Nevada) also makes rawhide reatas, quirts, reins and bosals of great beauty and function. A 2009 recipient of the Nevada Governor’s Arts Award and 2017 recipient of the Nevada Heritage Award, Doug... Read More →



Friday February 2, 2018 1:00pm - 2:15pm PST
G Three Bar Theater, Western Folklife Center 501 Railroad Street