Yes, we have a picture of them.
Yes, and I’ll never forget their singing. They were great entertainers. I don’t remember much about the buildings; expect that my Uncle George almost walked my legs off. My brother Harry went down into the lake, and they had a lunch there. There was a trail, and he went down and caught fish. He caught trout there, casting a spinner out from Wizard Island. Those fish had a great big head, and they come down like a snake. It was before they had introduced those Cyclops freshwater shrimp in there. These were pretty good sized trout, maybe like that long, and they’d have a big old head.
So they didn’t have much to live on, then?
No. I think they were probably planted there, without doubt.
I know Zane Grey was there a few years before you were in 1922, and he talked about how lean these fish were.
Yes. If you don’t have a picture of those fish, I might be able to get one from my brother.
Yes, I’d like to see those because we don’t have many early fish pictures other than…it’s always a string of fish but it’s too far away to get a really solid look at them.
I don’t know. Those that Odell has in that picture should look like that, but I don’t know if they do or not. I don’t think they show up. He might have tried to disguise the physical condition of the fish.
My mother painted some beautiful pictures of Crater Lake. It was a big thing in the whole state of Oregon. It was a tedious road over the Greensprings, and there were several places we stopped and put water in the radiators on the other side of the mountains. Those old cars boil up there. A lot of travel was low gear.
Did you go up there a lot when you were teaching school?
No. I never did. I had given to me, from [the University of] Oregon, a piece of pumice that Uncle Frank found floating. A floating rock was a big thing in those days. But, there are billions of them around, and I don’t think that I ever did keep it in my collection. The only unique thing was that he found it floating there in that first army party [of 1886].
