From Thunder To Breakfast
 Gene K. Garrison
 (Reviewed by The Editor - Rebecca Brown)
 2002 XLibris
  ISBN: 140100377X
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Hube Yates' campfire tales of his time as an Arizona pioneer, firefighter, hunting guide, dude wrangler.

With a Foreword by Hugh Downs who moved to Arizona & came across this loquacious pioneer, with his authentic & amusing memories.

It is 1914 & Hube Yates is all of eleven years old when his minister father uproots his family from the 160-acre claim which he had homesteaded when the Cherokee Strip was run, & with his wife & six children, two wagons pulled by mules, they head out from Guthrie, Oklahoma to faraway Phoenix.

Along the way, they come across Indians & bandits, posses & pigs, quicksands & bears, rivers & the Roosevelt Dam -- all perfect adventures for a boy of eleven.

Four years later, the family made the trip back north to Guthrie in an automobile & found out, as the old saying goes: “you can never go home.”

& so the stories keep coming, of his escapades as a Runaway & living on what he can shoot; of The Big Bicycle Race when Hube pedals from Tucson to Phoenix where he wins a suit of new clothes & earns the sobriquet Leather-Lungs Yates. Working on Colorado cattle ranches & playing with the young people of his church; memories of a feisty woman lawyer & The Frog Stunt; Christmas Projects & Peculiar Characters; A Turtle-Tip & The Old Goat & Play The Game & the Short-Cut.

Stories of another time in another place, told with a quiet, under-stated turn of phrase that demands you consider the twinkle in his eyes.

Stories, uncluttered & simply told, with the cadence of an old-time story-teller, leaving much to the imagination & the reader wanting more! Reminds me much of our beloved Poppa & the stories he would tell.

Legendary Hube Yates caught the attention of Gene K. Garrison, then a free-lance writer for Carefree Enterprise Magazine, & he kept her spellbound. From Thunder To Breakfast is the appealing result of their collaboration of talents.

More from Gene K. Garrison: Widowhood Happens & her children's book Javelina! Have-uh-WHAT? which is yet to become available on Amazon.com.
One Way to Publication by Gene K. Garrison, a RebeccasReads Writing Editorial
(02/09/03)

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