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Our History...

This is our loosely knit group of Buckskinning friends from California. We called ourselves the Bear Clan and this was taken at the Old Photography Studio in Calico Ghost Town at an Art Show that used the whole street for western art and sculptures in "82". We set up our camp of tipis and lean-to shelters in the horseshoe area for the weekend, promoting what we did and history, fun and a real hit with the artists and visitors alike!

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The gentleman is Pat Johnson at the last Beaumont, CA Cherry Festival attended before our move. We had a large group marching in the parade, Bob and I rode in costume and there was a mountain man camp with everyone in costume the weekend of that event and the horse and mule show.

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This is my first Appaloosa mare, M.K.'s Sugar Plum in the Banning, California Stagecoach Days celebration parade. Nearly always took first in those. It was also where I got my only Sweepstakes trophy in addition to the first place one.

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This is hubby Bob on the Comanche Voodoo mare in the Banning, CA Stagecoach Days parade, years unknown. First places both years

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These two are of my son Harry and I and also the color one includes my youngest Becky. The color shot is of our little encampment at Calico Ghost Town, Southern California at a Western Art Show I organized a mountain man group to attend for atmosphere and the black and white is the Beaumont, CA Cherry Festival Parade, son on a boarders 23 year old horse and me on M.K.'s Sugar Plum again in "81"

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This is me in "71" on our first Appaloosa, Dutch's Dark Eagle, our stallion. I had ridden in parades before that with groups, Equestrian Trails Incorporated, riding clubs throughout southern California dedicated to trying to save trails for horseback riding. (that was a loosing battle to developers) My daughter is there also in her first parade, in the oven, as I was 4 months along. My outfit quickly changed from that first parade and evolved into what is seen in the Rose Parade shots. I had hoped to ride the Heritage then called costume classes at breed shows but never got my outfit ready until we stopped trying to compete against the QH influence. I did use it though in some open shows.

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This was hubby Bob on Dutch in his first parade before he decided to go Mountain Man

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his one is a little later in the Rose Parade with my whole group. I can't remember the name of the gal who was the marshall of our group but the man in Roderick Yazzie, Navajo. This was taken just around that famous bend that gets a lot of the floats in trouble. It was one of the biggest thrills of my live to live the dream I had had since a little girl watching the parade in person, to be a part of it. The best part was riding in the downtown area with the tall buildings and folks hanging out of window calling my name, as there is a program that is sold by the Tournament Of Roses Association listing all the participants and history of the parade and photos of the past. Never did find out if I ever made that in later years

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This is a clipping of the Record-Gazette, front page of the festival section, Banning/Beaumont paper. "82" and the same parade son rode in. Hubby did the last year we rode in it. I was the president of our local chapter club in E.T.I. Equestrian Trails Incorporated and also the show chairman for the horse and mule show held in conjunction with the Cherry Festival and also organized a group of our mountain man friends to march behind hubby and I in the parade and stay at the show grounds at the edge of town in a small encampment with tipis and lean-to shelters, mountain man style. By the way, we moved up here, five bedrooms, tackroom, garage full, chickens, geese, rabbits, doves, love birds, two puppies and a dog, two grown cats, on half grown and a litter of kittens and our four mares and young stud. A caravan of two horse, four horse and biggest U-haul truck pulling the biggest U-haul trailer at the time. What a zoo. Broke down in Oregon and had a whole small town of about two hundred folks turn out to help us and feed us the morning after the breakdown, got a guy out of bed, hung over after his daughters wedding the day before to do the berrings on my truck and we got here that afternoon

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Voodoo in the yard, left just before the Rose Parade, on the right a few years before

< first suede cloth dress

< my girls, Becky mounted on Lightening and big sister Vickie walking beside >

Banning CA Stagecoach days "70's" Comanches Voodoo and me and Becky with first place and Sweepstakes trophies

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