The Yiddish Book Center's

Wexler Oral History Project

A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.

"I Could Do Everything a Cowboy Could Do"

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Albert “Boonie” Dinner describes his career as a cattle farmer, traveling all over the West of the United States.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Leonard Strear and Albert Dinner.

This excerpt is in English.

Leonard Strear was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1924. Leonard died in 2021.

Albert Dinner was born in Greeley, Colorado.