Ranch
life was ideal for my mother, as she was raised on a ranch in Pincher
Creek. Ranch life was not new to her. Dad was still working for the State
of California and also training horses when he was drafted into the Army
in 1942. My mother went to Canada to stay with her parents until my father
was finally discharged when I was six weeks old. They returned to California
for a couple of years; during that time he worked for the Kern County
Land Company in Bakersfield. In 1945, we moved to Elko, Nevada where he
began working for Bing Crosby. He enjoyed his work there immensely; the
only reason we left was because of well shafts surrounding the area. He
was deathly afraid his two-year-old would fall into one. We then moved
to the Quien Sabe Ranch in Tres Pinõs, California. Those three
years were the happiest years of our lives. My brother, John, was born
in Hollister.
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group of pictures were taken on the Quien Sabe Ranch Tres Pinõs, California . |
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| Irene
& Rocky |
Leslee on Nellie |
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| Irene
on Nellie 1948 . |
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| Ed
& Leslee |
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Ed
& Leslee |
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| John 1947 |
Leslee,
Irene & John 1947 . |
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Ed
& Rocky - Leslee on King
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| Ed,
Leslee & John Santa Maria, California 1950  |
Ed
on Hobo 1948 |
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