L.. Cook's House

Charlie Olson: shorter to go around it on account of all these little dips. Now there's canyons coming down in there and we would go down where the sheep would have made trail, you know, instead of going down and up they'd angle here and then angle back again. So it made quite a loop to go right across it, it would be pretty steep, but he said that if we would go higher and get away from those or go lower down and get away from them, but we didn't do that we stayed on the trail. There were sheep trails, you know. And that was the way we went to school, we either went that way or we went this way or we went around Bakers Mountain from the other side and came on around Bakers Mountain and in from the right across from the school you could see Bakers Mountain, you know, if you go to the right of it.

Bob Zybach: I've got one more question on that, those draws you were going up and down, would those draws have Doug fir in them? Or was that all bare in through those areas?

Charlie Olson: These little gorges here?

Bob Zybach: Yeah.

Charlie Olson: There were no trees. There were no trees there.

Bob Zybach: Okay, it was all pasture?

Charlie Olson: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Okay.

L. Cook's House

Bob Zybach: We're at the Cook house right here, first question is: Have you ever heard any stories about this house being haunted?

Charlie Olson: No.

Bob Zybach: I've got stories now, three or four of them.

Charlie Olson: Oh, well, that . . . I wouldn't pay any attention to that, I think that .

Bob Zybach: I don't pay attention to them except that I keep hearing them diferent places. Now this is the Cook house and their ranch extended all the way up to your properly, except for Matthews?

Charlie Olson: Yeah, Matthews was the only one in between us.

Bob Zybach: Okay, and this is where Wanda Cook and her husband and his uncle lived?

Charlie Olson: Cook's uncle?

Bob Zybach: Yeah.

Charlie Olson: I never knew him. That must have been after we . . . after I moved out of here.

Bob Zybach: Now, the. . . she can tell me all about these orchards and that, can you recall anything through this area of particular. . . any particular memoiy of this area?

Charlie Olson: No.

Bob Zybach: Now you said that her husband was the one that found Junk Matthews and that they didn't have . . . they had two boys but they were a lot younger than you.

Charlie Olson: Who had two boys?

Bob Zybach: Wan4a Cook.

Charlie Olson: She didn't have any kids, I don't think.

Bob Zybach: She had two boys but they were a lot younger than you, so young you didn't even know about

Bob Zybach: them.

Charlie Olson: She could have had a family but I never knew it because after she married Cook and started to live here, you know, and I grew up and left the area, I didn't know what happened to her.

Bob Zybach: Do you know who lived here before the Cooks?

Charlie Olson: Nobody.

Bob Zybach: Nobody lived here.

Charlie Olson: Nobody lived here before, he built this house.

Bob Zybach: Do you know who owned this land before the Cooks?

Charlie Olson: Baker.

Bob Zybach: Oh, this is Baker's property. Where did the Bakers live?

Charlie Olson: Just a little farther on.

Bob Zybach: And that would be Bakers Mountain right there?

Charlie Olson: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Do you know the name of that hill over there?

Charlie Olson: That's still Bakers Mountain.

Bob Zybach: I mean the one. . . you can't see it probably. So from this point until Baker's place can you think of anything in between that's worth stopping at?

Charlie Olson: Well, where's Baker's house was, we should probably stop and see if we can make