As far as the Indian subject goes, was there a lot more contact at Olympic with the Indians being in the park versus the way it is here where there doesn’t seem to be much contact with the Indians in Chiloquin?
I think the reason that there was more contact is because it had to be. Because they were there.
Jean: The kids went to school together.
She established the first Cub Scouts up there, and 50% of them were Indian kids.
Jean: More, I think.
I think in the school there was 60% t o65% of the kids were Indians. And they were good people. There were good people and bad people. Well, that isn’t anything worse than Yosemite, I guess. No, and we got to know some Indians up there quite well and there were, some were nice people. But see you had the Neah Bay, you had Ozette, you see you had Indian tribes scattered all along there. You had the Quileutes, the Quninaults from most of the south to you. And the Ozettes, you had three or four Indian tribes scattered along there and you were just thrown in with them. Now, since you were by yourself there were a lot of things you may have overlooked as far as law enforcement was concerned, because you wanted to come home was the thing. There were times when I just closed my eyes and kept going, because it wasn’t safe doing anything else, or at least it could have been unsafe. And our law enforcement in those days was pretty dog gone minimal, too. But that was, it was an experience I’ll never forget. The back country is fantastic. My first horse experience was up there too, I learned how to pack and I learned how to ride.
Horses weren’t much of a factor here.
They were no factor, we had no horses at all. Do you have them in the summertime now?
