Dyer:  Frank Coleman (___) (___) and it’s the 31^st of August and today would like to talk a little bit about Frank reminiscing through the old days in Yosemite.  So Frank you’ve been quite a few things there in Yosemite Valley, so why don’t you just give us an idea of some of the different jobs you’ve held out there and the approximate time that you think (___) (___).

Coleman:  Well I’ve freighted in Yosemite and I drove stage in Yosemite.  I worked for the horse field in Yosemite, a blacksmith’s helper and I worked through the packer and worked the heavy equipment operator (___) (___) and (___) (___).  A few years in the modern times equipment and stuff.  (___) tractors on the Nevada Falls too.

Dyer:  Tractors up there?

Coleman:  Yeah when (___) coming in, I did move tractors from Sierra Nevada to Glacier Point and Leland Point, they call the Pack Point now, I (___) back and forth from the (___) (___) and I went down to the water wheel falls in Tuolumne Meadows in the tractor.  That’s where I got the… we each had a memory there.  (___) (___).  Me and my grandma (___) (___) (___).

Dyer:  I would like that.  So you’ve worked with animals, and you’ve worked with machinery, and you…from…when did you regulate; first started working in the valley, Frank?

Coleman:  In 1915.

Dyer: 1915,  you were still pretty young then, weren’t you?

Coleman:  Yeah I was young.

Dyer:  Now but you were (___) before that.

Coleman:  Oh yeah.  I was eight years old, seven years old I guess. 

Dyer:  Now you vividly remember the Indians in the valley…

Coleman:  Oh yeah.

Dyer:  …during that period. 

Coleman:  (___) (___) (___) (___) during the fourth grade and local hounds at El Portal Indians and they bring a lot of horses in the park and out of the park.  (___) (___) used to sell them the (___) Kaufman and Kinney.  They let their horseman fish them out of the trail.  He was a pretty big man (___) (___).