From Thunder to Breakfast (edit title/settings)

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• Hube Yates, pioneer family members, practical jokesters, Will Rogers, peculiar characters, firefighters, policemen, horseback riders, friends: Hugh Downs wrote the foreword to this book, a memoir of a very special man by the name of Hube Yates. Born in 1903 he moved by covered wagon from Oklahoma to Arizona when he was eleven. The highlights of his life are touched upon right on up into his 70s — his adventures as a youth, firefighting experiences (including the Carnegie Hero Medal award), horseman, dude wrangler, and natural storyteller. He saw humor in most events. Gene K. Garrison is the writer of this pleasant, somewhat historic book. She wrote feature articles for the monthly magazine, Carefree Enterprise, for 20 years, and has written four books.

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• “From the chapter, Crisis at the Drive-In Buggy Wash. Hube was a teenager working at the horse and buggy wash establishment in Phoenix, when a man came riding in. "He was a stranger to me, and I knew pretty near everybody in Phoenix. There was something a little different about him. He was an older man than Dick by about fifteen to eighteen years. He was all silver around the ears. He had only two or three days' whiskers on his face. He was strong-lookin' and had gray-blue eyes, as clear as crystal. He looked like he had gone through the worst dust-storm in the world. He also looked like the kind of guy you'd like to have on your side if you had any trouble."”

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• “This is about a runaway Model-T Ford event that happened in a canyon in New Mexico when Hube was taking his little brother and sister to catch a train. He had to intentionally tip the car over to avoid going over a cliff. "I hollered back to Skeet to roll down to the bottom of the seat, and I reached over and grabbed Esther around the shoulder and pulled her down under the steerin' wheel where she'd be protected. I just laid that car upside-down right in the middle of the road, all four wheels in the air. The luggage and everything else we were carryin' went from thunder to breakfast all over the road. "Nobody was hurt. We got out, but I didn't have any bulldog." "We looked to a kink in the road, a switchback about three-quarters of a mile away, or better, and saw him runnin' away from us just as hard as he could run. I called and called and yelled and yelled. My voice was echoin' through the canyon."”

  Hube Yates

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1. Hube Yates (Author)
2. Gene K. Garrison

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• Dewey: 973

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• Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Regional U.S. › West
• Books › History › World