5.. Wildlife

Bob Zybach: how long did they stay?

Wanda Marcks Cook: Who?

Bob Zybach: Your parents, how long did they keep that?

Wanda Marcks Cook: My father died. He had cancer of the liver and he died a year or two after. . let's see. . . My son's. . my son wasn't even a year old, Roy wasn't even a year old when my father died. Then mother carried on the best she could and then she sold the place.

Bob Zybach: Who did she sell it to?

Wanda Marcks Cook: I don't know. Is your machine on?

Bob Zybach: Do you want me to tunz it off?

Wanda Marcks Cook: Turn it off.

Bob Zybach: Okay. [Tells story that she doesn't want recorded].

Wanda Marcks Cook: That's why I don't know what happened.

5. Wildlife

Bob Zybach: Now your mother then where did she move after she sold the place?

Wanda Marcks Cook: She moved to Portland.

Bob Zybach: And lived here for quite awhile?

Wanda Marcks Cook: Yes, she lived here from then on.

Bob Zybach: Did she remarry?

Wanda Marcks Cook: She lived with me for awhile after I was on my own.

Bob Zybach: Did she remariy?

Wanda Marcks Cook: No.

Bob Zybach: So, why did she come to Portland?

Wanda Marcks Cook: Where were we?

Bob Zybach: Well, you were saying you were the last of your family 's line, but your mother sold the place and moved..

Wanda Marcks Cook: My mother moved to Portland and she got work here and there, as long as she could work and then when she couldn't work any more, why then we took over. We helped out.

Bob Zybach: Now, your children, you still have your children and a couple nieces and nephews so there are.

Wanda Marcks Cook: You're talking too fast.

Bob Zybach: Okay, I'll slow down.

Wanda Marcks Cook: I'm sorry.

Bob Zybach: When. . let's go back to the farm, when your father was farming, did you ever do any fishing or did he do any hunting or did the neighbors fish and hunt there?

Wanda Marcks Cook: My father was a great hunter on the prairie. Prairie chickens, ducks, geese, and I can remember them driving [no cars, ponies - WMC] out in the fields, you know, and there'd be a picnic lunch and they'd [one party of five or six hunters - WMC] go hunting and the women would stay around the hay stack or wherever they managed, you know. And I used to have pictures of. . we'd. pictures of the geese and chickens and so on. But anyway when he came west and he bought a very beautiful rifle, he was going to. . do some hunting, you know, get a deer. Well, then the farm took so much of his time he never did get to go hunting, but one morning he got

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