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Show Yula Sue Hunting Beryl, Utah born: 17 September, 1928 Yula Sue Whipple Hunting grew up with her older brother Meb and two younger sisters on a family ranch south of St. George, Utah on the Arizona Strip. Her father, who had come west from Connecticut to be a cowboy, and her mother who was from a local, polygamist family, homesteaded a ranch on Grassy Mountain in Mohave County. They lived south of Mt. Trumball, or Bundyville, as it is often called. The community meeting place in Bundyville was a building which functioned as both the schoolhouse and the church. Throughout her childhood it was the site of old-time country dances, parties and get-togethers which often featured poetry recitations. At Christmas parties, she and her numerous cousins used to anxiously wait for their deaf aunt Lilly Iverson to recite Thomas Harris Bailey's "The Mistletow Bow," a narrative poem that told about a young bride being buried alive on her wedding day. The recitation of poetry was also frequently heard on the Fourth of July when the community gathered at Nixon Springs to put on a Wild West Show with contests in roping, riding and team tying. Cow drives provided another situation in which Yula heard tall tales, stories and recitations from her cowboy neighbors. Although Yula's parents were neither reciters nor writers of poetry, her father owned and enjoyed some poetry books, including the work of Bruce Kiskaddon. Years later, when her husband was employed by the Farr Cattle 40 Cowboy Poetry From Utah |
