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FROM THUNDER TO BREAKFAST

You can expect to step way back in time to the edge of the covered wagon era, and the advent of the Model-T car, and hit the highlights of the adventurous life of Hube Yates. That’s short for Hubert. His brand was HAY, all tilted together.

There were seven siblings in this group of Yates. Hube described his younger brother, “Skeet” as a manly little boy. Eleven-year-old Hube was manly too. He accepted responsibility as a duty, even to the point of guarding the mules and the family with a 12-gauge single-shot rifle while his parents and siblings slept in a covered wagon on their trek West. He had heard about the Wild and Wooly West from pulp fiction, and he was alert.

That’s the way his life was. He took on all challenges with courage and grace, and he had a memory like a steel trap. In his seventies he could recall, in detail and with humor, story after story. Of course, there were heroic actions. They weren’t funny, but they were poignant.

Hube had a special way of speaking, a gentle, easy colloquial style, and a deep, easy-to-listen to voice.
He didn’t have to impress anyone, but he did.

His likable personality was what drew people to him. This horseman looked the part — when it wasn’t a Phoenix firefighter outfit, he wore the standard Southwestern garb — Levis, denim shirt, boots and Western hat and belt. He was buried in his regular clothes. It wouldn’t have seemed like Hube if he had
worn a suit.

From Thunder to Breakfast will put a smile on your face. It’s a pleasant read, with history tucked in here and there, and chuckles all over the place. Readers have the privilege of meeting a man full of charm and wit. It’s second-hand, of course, but it's the next best thing to talking with him one-on-one. Gene K. Garrison was the lucky lady who managed to do that — and to write his stories.