Thursday, March 4, 1976
Nyssa Gate City Journal. Nyssa, Oregon
would have to go back up and
warn the kids, who were
tithing because Otis had a
.22 and if he »aw the bear, he
would shoot it and they would
all be in trouble. It took a lot
of talking to get the little girl
to go back but they did and
never did see anything of the
bear.
THESE 1920 CAMPERS WERE MEM
ben of the Bullard and Dail families with the
Another thing, we killed 14
rattlesnakes in camp. It
seemed that when the herder
brought the sheep to drink at
the creek where we were
camped, it stirred up the
snakes and next thing we
knew, there would be one. If
the sheep ran over one they
would cut it all to pieces with
their hold's.
We ran out of butter in
camp, so we stopped at the
Holdout and all they had was
margarine. That was in the
days before they colored R.
mothers and »mall children on the horse»
The Family Camping Trip
The facts of this camping
trip, a 1920 version, were told
to Nell Bowers by Mrs. Otis
Bullard
First time we went to the
mountains camping was in
1920. My folks wanted to go
and Otis' folks wanted to go
but there was the problem of
having enough room for all of
us to ride. There were six of
the Bullards and nine of us
besides all the camping stuff
we would need Mr. Bullard
had a car and Papa had a car.
So Clyde Long had an old
Model T He told Otis if he
would fix it up and get it
running. Otis could take that.
So they really worked on that.
We got ready and took off the
list of July. We went up
through Brogan, and up
Brogan hill. We had so much
trouble but it was all with Mr.
Bullard's car and Papa's car.
They boiled and we had to
keep getting water from the
creek to fill the radiator«.
They would get stuck and we
would all have to push We
didn't have a bit of trouble
with the Model T or the "tin
lizzie" as everyone called the
Ford then We went through
Ironside and turned left,
there and followed Rose
Creek up to where there was
a little old shack. The sheep­
herder was there with his
pack string to pack us in to
the North Fork of the
Malheur where it connects
with Bear Creek. He had told
us he would do this long
before, if we would just come
up there. So the next
morning we packed up and
left Our mothers rode horses
and some of the smaller
children also rode The rest
of us walked It was seven
miles back to where we set up
camp.
We stayed ten days. We
caught 240 trout and killed
about 40 grouse You know
with all that gang to feed, we
had to have meat That was
in the days before coolers or
any way to keep our game oe
fish. We ate everything as
fast as we got it And as soon
as we got up there and the
sheepherders
found cut
about us. they all came to
meals And besides that,
there was a survey crew came
in there and stayed three
days and boarded with us.
We cocked on a little camp
stove and Grandma Bullard
baked biscuits for all that
gang She could bake eight
biscuits at a time She would
put the biscuits in a can,
about a two gallon can it was.
and she would fill the can
before each meal. It had a
tight lid but Lillian. Ted (one
of the Bullard girls) Mary and
Florence would snitch those
hot biscuits and eat them. I
don't know how they kept her
from catching them. She had
had a lot of experience
camping. She came all the
way from Nebraska in a
covered wagon, with a wagon
train. The party they came
with went on to Rogue River
but the Bullards were expec­
ting their first baby, so they
stopped at Vale. They lived in
their wagon a long time.
Anyway, we ran out of
food. The sheepherder said
he would go to Buelah and
get some at a store, there, it
was about fifteen miles. Otte
started out with him on a
pack saddle on a mule. He
went about ten miles and
walked back. The herder
came back In a few days with
4 cans of food for that whole
crew. So we just packed up
and came home. We had a
big time. One day. while we
were up there, we were all up
the creek fishing, that Is all
the young people. Ethel
Bullard, who had stayed tai
camp decided to join us. So
she got on a little buckskin
horse and rode up. She came
a ways and saw a bear. Thai
little hone turned in her
tracks and went back to camp
as hard as she could ruo.
Ethel’s mother, finally, got
an explanation out of her
about the bear. She said they
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fBLRTHS.j
We got some of that It was
just like lard. We came on
down and found some people
going on a picnic. They gave
us some bread We put that
stuff on it—we'd better have
eaten the bread without it.
We were gone ten days.
We let the grain go without
water and
Clyde Long
irrigated the hay for us. I
guess the cows were all dry
then The old Model T came
home without any trouble,
even a flat tire We had extra
tires hung all over it. for then
you had no place to get one
fixed and those tires usually,
went flat on the way to town.
You had to stop right there in
the middle of the road and
take it off the rim. patch the
tube and lots of times the tire
before you could go on. So we
did pretty well. That must
have been some kind <4
record.
Hob Tosar» Hosplul
CHARLES BULLARD hol­
ding one of the many rattie-
tnakcs that were driven out
»
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February 23 • Mr. and
Mr-.. Loren Whitney. Payette
a boy
February 26 - Mr. and
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February 28 - Mr. and
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February 29 - Mr. and
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Mr. and Mrs. David
Landers, Ontario, a girl
Mr and Mrs. Louis Gu-
tierrez, Ontario, a girl
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Millhol-
lin. Vale, a girl.
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