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History of Herbert & Bernice Pingree and Kramer Farm (7 pages)
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their collection of crystals, gifts from Mr. Schriebner which he had taken from the ceiling of his mine.
There were birds to watch and animals to talk about -the deer, puma and bear and there was Mama's fish.
The first fish that she caught out of Lindsay Lake -a 22" trout!
BY this time Bill Black had leased an entire section from the Southern Pacific Railroad and paid fees
to the US. Forest Service for additional [and on which to run his cattle. He now had up to three hundred
cattle grazing in the mountains.
Bill Black loved the land he owned. On January 5 1925, he bought the Fuller lake property from
Mr. Fuller, a carpenter, and
Mrs. Fuller who operated a
dairy and sold butter to the
railroad (this land included the
Fuller and Rucker lake
properties). This [and had been
deeded to Mrs. Ann Fuller on
October 30, 1882. In 1944 he
bought the section at Texas
Creek.
Although the camp at
Texas Creek remained much the same over the years that Bernice and Dorothy were growin up, some
things changed. Now Bill would drive his automobile to meet visitors at Emigrant Gap for Ha summers
together at the Black Camp. There were still bonfires, picnics and hikes and always the popular horseback
rides and outings to “Snort” as Mount Bowman was called.
Bernice and Dorothy came when they could, now that they were grown. Bernice, a school teacher,
began to bring her friend, Herb Pingree to the camp and her father had added a new responsibility to his
work in the mountains. Although he still had his cattle, he planted trout fingerlings in the surrounding in
the surrounding lakes. Currying the fish in ten gallon cans, two on each pack horse, he would ride off into
the mountains to stoc
the lakes for the US.
Fish and Game ie o
Department. Bill bs. gga eA
continued to go to the a gaat
Texas Creek camp
almost until his death
MM 1965.
In 1934
Bernice and Herb = i
were married. As a Bill Black with a morning’s catch .
descendant of pioneers, a
Bernice married a
man who was also from a family of early California settlers.
In the late 1860's Herb’s father Perry Parker Pingree (born in Georgetown, Massachusetts in 1848)
accompanied his uncle, Lewis Wheeler, from Maine to California. His uncle had made a previous trip and
the young Parker was eager to try his hand at placer mining.
Fuller Lakewith remaining trees