Buck: When I Was a Cowboy, with Vern Hume, 1986

Buck: When I Was a Cowboy, with Vern Hume, 1986

Video, 24 minutes

Collection: the National Gallery of Canada

“Buck: When I Was a Cowboy” functions as a biography as well as an examination of the notions of the western genre. The video follows the personal history of a retired ranch hand, William (Buck) Drummond, who worked throughout B.C. and southern Alberta between 1930 and 1979.