In the late 1940s, Bee Ho lived on the farm of the Whitaker family east of Kincaid, Kansas. The Whitakers were an accomplished musical family who spent part of the year farming and part of the year traveling the rodeo and music circuit. Roger Whitaker contacted me recently by email. The email reads in part as follows:

"To get to see these pics brings back so many wonderful memories. I remember those photos as a child, believe it or not. Bee Ho was my best friend as a child. I used to sit on his knee or a tree stump and listen to his stories so many times. He lived in a small trailer on our farm East of Kincaid, Kansas for many years. We used to do shows and small rodeos together with a trick horse, rope tricks, Western singing, etc. Bee Ho had all those small dogs that did such wonderful tricks. The most surprising was that he taught them to walk on their front feet. I remember, for my birthday one time, he made me a 'Wild Animal Wagon' to pull in the Kincaid Fair Parade with my pet racoon inside. As a grand finale, he presented me with a coffee can with 500 pennies inside. That was a fortune back in those days."