Re: LUCIUS BEEBE: December 9, 1902 – February 4, 1966

BobHuddleston Wrote:
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> ...  I also grew up on their NG to the Rockies.
> Wonderful book. And the purple prose was
> countered by fantastic Clegg photography!

Nelson Bros Lumber Co. Wrote:
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> Beebe was one of a kind .... He even
> wrote an entire monograph on bowler
> hats.

Undoubtedly the inspiration for Messers. Shawcraft, Knoob & Stebbins affection for said headgear . . .    

> "When a fabrication is more interest-
> ing than the truth, print the fabrication"

Donald Foster Wrote:
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> Yea, ol' Lucius would never let the facts
> get in the way of a good story!

Mike L Wrote:
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> ... I laughed the whole way through it
> reading his {purple} prose.  How much
> of the stories are true I don't know, but
> they sure made for entertaining reading.


Absolutely Correct, Gentlemen -

Or, in today's vernacular, "Right On".*    

Indeed, I owe not only a florid editorial style and disdain for spell-checkers but much of my noteworthy histörically accurate (if not "Politically Correct") substance to Mr. Beebe's inspiration during my formative foamish but pre-Phraud-O-Graphic™ years.

- Sincerely, Willie  (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)  
          "Not All Who Have Cell-Phones Do Twitter
          "Not All Those Who Ponder Can Think ... "

* I.E. "Spot On" for those few Across-the-Ponders and Antipödæns amongst us.