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The item is an audio recording of an interview with Leslie Leighton made in Vancouver in 1974.
T0006:0001 track 1: Leslie Leighton's parents' backgrounds in B.C. from the 1860s. Father's Glenbrook Ranch at Savona. Building of irrigation works on Durant Creek, 1909. Feed for cattle. Housing on the ranch and building a log cabin. Description of cowboys working on ranch. Cowboys' drinking habits. Good food from chuck wagons. Interviewee as "The last of the first cowboys". Work for Cattleman John Wilson and with several of the original cowboys in B.C. Early cowboys on drives from Oregon and at the Gang Ranch.
T0006:0001 track 2: The Harper family ranches (Gang, Perry, Harper Camp and Kelly Lake). Leighton's own; youth, schooling. Description of the yearly round of ranch work. John Wilson's role in the region. Leighton's work as a stage driver for the BX company. Stage schedules and conditions on the Cariboo Road. Modern chuck wagon racing. Leaving Ashcroft at night.
T0006:0002 track 1: Breaking horses. Breaking techniques. Christmas on the ranch. Dances, weddings, fairs and exhibitions. Races and bucking contests. Saddle horse contests. Hospitals and childbirth in hospitals. Cowboys at the hotel when injured.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life at Chezacut in the Chilcotin, 1908-1930 PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1930 RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1975-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Martha S. Mulvahill discusses life at Chezacut in the Chilcotin: how she came to the Chilcotin; her brother, Will Copeland, had ranch at Chezacut; arrival and description of stage journey to Chezacut; the ranch; haying time; cattle drives; her husband, John W. "Charlie" Mulvahill; his background; husband's ranch. TRACK 2: Mrs. Mulvahill further discusses life at Chezacut: trip to Ashcroft; growing hay; cold winters; wildlife; school; digging well; husband's accident with horse; details of farming; driving cattle; trapping; Norman Lee's famous cattle drive to the Klondike.

CALL NUMBER: T1482:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): George Vancouver Copley : pioneer, surveyor, explorer and civil servant PERIOD COVERED: 1880-1920 RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1975-06-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: George Copley tells story of his father who emigrated from Germany, and settled at Cobble Hill about 1876. Copley born 1880. Early life in Cobble Hill. Injured in a sawmill in Nanaimo. Lengthy series of operations to save his arm. A variety of jobs in Victoria. Meets Frank Swannell, famous surveyor. TRACK 2: Description of Frank Swannell. Surveying in British Columbia before 1920: Finlay; River, Liard River, Parsnip River, Cariboo, Pemberton Valley. Worked for B.C. Forest Service starting about 1914. Transportation in the central interior: stage coach and steamship. Steamship ride up the Nechako River. Horse and gas stages on the Cariboo Road. Arrival of stage at Soda Creek.

CALL NUMBER: T1482:0002 - 0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): George Vancouver Copley : pioneer, surveyor, explorer and civil servant RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1975-06 & 07 SUMMARY: [No content documentation is available for these five tapes, which were recorded on June 17, 18 & 20 and July 2, 1975.]

The item is an audio recording of an interview with Molly Forbes in 1976.
T0390:0001 track 1: Lurlene Mary "Molly" Forbes discusses her family background. Father, Thomas Barton, came to the Cariboo in 1872; mother, Margaret Cunningham, lived at the 74 Mile Ranch; parents married about 1894; father had many jobs; family background; born 1900 in Clinton. Description of elementary school, cattle drives in Clinton. Description of the stage coaches on the Cariboo Road. Teamsters on the Cariboo Road. Riding on the stage coaches. Clinton described. Description of spring and fall assizes. Various court cases described.
T0390:0001 track 2: More on the Clinton school. Early automobiles. Clinton hotels described. Ostlers and blacksmiths. Businesses in Clinton, ca. 1910, described. Chinese in Clinton. Ministers. Attitudes towards First Nations in Clinton. More on the Chinese in Clinton.