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Show I n . Allred 0 WIN: Chain Lakes are just below Mt. Emmons aren't they? GLE: Yes. WIN: That's a nice area. GLE: It was a rough trail up there. WIN: Oh, it's not bad now. GLE: Probably not, I haven't been up there since I was a kid. WIN: Well, it's been a number of years since I've been up there, but we went up there to camp just before Chain Lakes, and then we climbed Emmons, and then walked over to Kings Peak, and then walked over to the other side, Still Water Drainage. That was a nice trip. So, as you were growing up -let's see, you were born in '21, so when you were eight years old, and the country entered the Great Depression, did you notice any change in your family's economic status at that time? Or, on the farm, were you fairly self-sufficient, and probably didn't have a whole lot anyway? GLE: Well, of course, I didn't notice any change at that age, but it was tough going. But I consider my folks to have been very ambitious. My dad got out and did a lot of things. He did a lot of things for other people. He was a self-sufficient type person, and didn't rely on the government or anything else. In his growing up, in his ranching in Nevada, he went through the eighth grade, but he was the dentist in Nevada on those cattle ranches. And he was quite a veterinarian. And during the early thirties there weren't any veterinarians in that area, and he did a lot of that kind of work with sick animals and so forth. And he seldom charged anybody. WIN: That's like my great grandmother who was out in Ibapah, which isn't far from there. She 6 |
