Gene Garner #1 (From Buckles)

Scan13228, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Gene was a remarkable guy and like Wayne Franzen, despite the lack of any background with exotic animals could train whatever the situation presented. I first met him and Rebecca when they came to Carson & Barnes with the leopard-dog arena act that D.R. bought from John Cuneo. Some years later Gene delivered the same act to Mexico after it was purchased by Gran Circo Bells and wound up staying. He eventually married one of the Bells daughters and even took the name "Jim Bells". The dogs and leopard seen above are no doubt, remains of that act but not the "zebra".