What was mostly planted?
Rainbow trout. (AH)
We just broke for lunch, and we’re resuming our oral history interview this afternoon, starting with Albert’s story about a bear in the cook shack.
This happened at the bunk house where the boys stayed at the ranger station (6). We slept upstairs. The cook slept upstairs. The dining room was downstairs. And the front door swung in and had a thumb latch on it. This bear came around and pressed the thumb latch and came in and the door went shut behind the bear. So in the night, I heard a noise downstairs and I told the cook, “Billy,” I said, “There’s something in your kitchen.” He went down the stairs wearing a long white nightshirt and scared the bear. The only way the bear could see out was through the window, and the bear went out through the windows and took the windows out with him. That’s the bear story.
Did both of you know the names of certain bears at the park? We have pictures with bears identified.
(Family showed photo album..)
Jimmy was the black bear and had the two cubs. (OH)
They changed her name after they found out she was a mama bear. Buster was a brown bear that had two cubs. I don’t know what they named her for. Anyway, she had the cubs. And there were several other bears that had cubs. They never did name them as I could remember.
We have a photo album of some of the bears identified, including Buster and Jimmy.
There’s Billy Van Camp, the cook, feeding the bears. He’d stand at the back door of the kitchen. Here’s Billy down here again. This is me feeding the bear and over there, that’s me. I believe that’s s bear they called Bruno. He was about a two-year-old cub. There’s the two little cubs at the base of the tree. Evidently, they’re that brown bear’s [Buster’s] cubs.
