The Pit Bull Historian

[CYJ]

I found out who the Historian's name was. Name is Ed Mullins. Years back I stopped in at Joe Beal's for a short visit before going on up the road to visit Sonny Shropshire. Mullins, and I assume a girlfriend was at Mr. Beals that day.

His interviews were interesting. Some of his information came out of all those dog magazines/books that Mr. Beal had over the many years. Mr. Beal let me take all those magazines and make photocopies. Which I did return the originals to him.

The last major stud dog Mr. Joe Beal had and used was bred off my dog yard. Was an older female of his breeding, later named Young's Amber. I got Amber from S. Shropshire, was bred to my Young's Chuck (Carver/Creel). P. R. Morris' daughter (a registered nurse) had to hand raise that litter due to Amber's milk going bad. Mr. Beal named his dog Southern Johnny Reb. He liked the dog a lot. Cheers