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The Old Stagedriver’s Yosemite Yarns (1962) by Laurence Degnan and Douglass Hubbard

Contents How the Firefall Began McCauley’s Chicken The Rattlesnake Tree The First Climb Up Half Dome Rough Rider Galen Dug His Grave One Down, Two Down Music Over the Mountain The Shooting of Dick Whorton Frost’s Red Whiskers Let’s Not be Hasty!

Pike Shadow Shows Up Half Dome on Two Apricots Johnny Brown and the Watermelon Down the Mountain in a Gold Pan Fireworks The Injuns Killed Boston Lembert’s Murder How the Locust Trees Came Holdup! Notes for the Historian

[click to enlarge] Cover with stagedriver Eddie Webb

About the Authors

Laurence V. Degnan was born February 14, 1884. He is the son of Yosemite pioneers John and Bridget Degnan. In the 1890s his parents established a family-ran bakery in the Old Upper Village in Yosemite Valley. The family moved their deli to the new Yosemite Village in 1956. The new A-frame building bankrupted their family business and they sold the business to the Yosemite Park and Curry Company in 1974. Laurence Degnan died in San Francisco August 13, 1963. For more information, see “Degnan Bakery” and “John Degnan Bakery and Store,” in One Hundred Years in Yosemite (1947) by Carl P. Russell.

For biographies about Douglass Hubbard, see

• John Bingaman, Guardians of the Yosemite (1961), p. 114.
• Allan Shields, (PDF) “Whatever Happend to Doug Hubbard,” Yosemite Association (Spring 2003), pp. 8-11.

Bibliographical Information

Laurence V. Degnan (1884-1963) and Douglass H. Hubbard (Douglass Hopwood Hubbard) (1918-2011), The Old Stagedriver’s Yosemite Yarns (Fresno, California: Awani Press, 1961), Illustrated by Ed Vella. Copyright 1961 Douglass H. Hubbard. LCCN 62002091. 25 pages. Illustrated. 28 cm. Bound in white paper wrappers with a color photograph on the front cover and illustration on the back cover. Library of Congress call number F868.Y6 D4.

Digitized by Dan Anderson, May 2006, from a copy at San Diego Public Library. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice is left intact.
    —Dan Anderson, www.yosemite.ca.us

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