Even before the Depression, getting by for the Borrego Valley homesteaders meant sometimes hunting out of season for deer and even the occasional Bighorn sheep. Fleta Beaty McCandless admitted to that particular skeleton in most of the old families' closets: "In those days, boy, it was something. I'll tell you why; you know, when you live on just beans and rabbits or whatever kind of meat you could get, why, dad would get so hungry for some fresh meat that he'd take off and pretty near always come back with something. And he knew he was breaking the law, but fortunately for him he never got caught." (McCandless interview, 1986).
Bud Clark adds that the local game warden was always out to catch Beaty, but never did. Al McCandless recalls that his family more often ate rattlesnake and rabbits—"My grandmother probably knew 40 ways to cook a rabbit, and I ate rabbit prepared each one of the 40 ways as a child. I don't eat rabbit anymore." ~ (Borrego Sun, 4 November 1993).
Bud Clark adds that the local game warden was always out to catch Beaty, but never did. Al McCandless recalls that his family more often ate rattlesnake and rabbits—"My grandmother probably knew 40 ways to cook a rabbit, and I ate rabbit prepared each one of the 40 ways as a child. I don't eat rabbit anymore." ~ (Borrego Sun, 4 November 1993).
Even before the Depression, getting by for the Borrego Valley homesteaders meant sometimes hunting out of season for deer and even the occasional Bighorn sheep. Fleta Beaty McCandless admitted to that particular skeleton in most of the old families' closets: "In those days, boy, it was something. I'll tell you why; you know, when you live on just beans and rabbits or whatever kind of meat you could get, why, dad would get so hungry for some fresh meat that he'd take off and pretty near always come back with something. And he knew he was breaking the law, but fortunately for him he never got caught." (McCandless interview, 1986).
Bud Clark adds that the local game warden was always out to catch Beaty, but never did. Al McCandless recalls that his family more often ate rattlesnake and rabbits—"My grandmother probably knew 40 ways to cook a rabbit, and I ate rabbit prepared each one of the 40 ways as a child. I don't eat rabbit anymore." ~ (Borrego Sun, 4 November 1993).
Bud Clark adds that the local game warden was always out to catch Beaty, but never did. Al McCandless recalls that his family more often ate rattlesnake and rabbits—"My grandmother probably knew 40 ways to cook a rabbit, and I ate rabbit prepared each one of the 40 ways as a child. I don't eat rabbit anymore." ~ (Borrego Sun, 4 November 1993).
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