RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Louis Lobsinger came from Bruce County, Ontario, where his family had two farms. He describes the story of how he came to BC to visit his sister in the Nicola Valley, and was hired as a printer who eventually bought out his boss. The paper was the Nicola Herald, and he changed the name to the Merritt Herald. He describes a coal miners' strike in 1909; Mrs. Priest, who was the first school teacher in 1905; dances; in 1914 railroads changed from coal to oil and there was a depression in Merritt, until the saw mill opened in 1924; then in the 1930s the depression hit; various jobs he held; how he paid off debts; ranchers; the Cootley family; the 1934 stampede; his move to Williams Lake in 1952, and all the changes he saw there; the coal mines at Merritt; the cowboy/miner relationship; people passing through on their way to Fort George in 1909; finally he discusses the end of coal mining in Merritt. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0665:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Bullman discusses his father, who came to Canada from England in 1886 and worked on the Cherry Creek ranch; worked for John Hall and then worked with his brother in the Northern Nicola Valley. His father was a cattleman and a horse trader. He shipped horses from the Nicola Valley to Vancouver and sold them there. In 1908, he bought the Willow Ranch from John Peterson, then bought another 20,000 acres and kept expanding. By the time he died in 1935, he controlled over 40,000 acres. Several anecdotes are told about cattle; the railroad; hotels; stage lines; the Willow Ranch; the trip to Merritt; the Brigade trails; trade with Indians; the Hope trail, a man named Cootley; Joe Graves; Dave Lindley. TRACK 2: Mr. Bulman continues discussing saddle horses; gold rush days; cattle drives; the use of horses; how his father got into raising horses at the time of WWI; saddles; the cattle business; donkeys; migrant workers; and cowboys.

CALL NUMBER: T0665:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Bulman discusses a gunfight involving Ussher, Palmer, McLeod and McLean. Allan McLean and his gang killed Ussher and made their way out to Trap Lake. He talks about the Woodward family; more on the posse and gunfight; and Bill Miner. [TRACK 2: blank.]