Jake Wilder
This man never got the respect he deserved. Him and Clouse were very good friends, Wilder had a few of Berts dogs to breed for him. If anybody say's wilder dogs weren't tested, they're wrong.
Words of the late Keith Fitzpatrick
GR CH CORVINO'S "BRADDOCK" (14XW)
Robert H. Hemphill was born on the 26th of June 1901. Robert Hemphill had been friends with Earl Tudor as early as 1914. Hemphill became personally interested in the Lightner dogs and in the 1920's began an extensive search to locate and obtain high caliber dogs from this line. It was Dan McCoy who received word of the frenchman who lived in Louisiana by the name of Bourgeous. Bourgeous had received several dogs directly from Mr. William Lightner and for many years had bred and raised these dogs strictly for his own personal satisfaction. Bourgeous was extremely successful in preserving the "Red Nose" strain. Robert Hemphill went with Dan McCoy to Louisiana and aided by Gaboon Trahan, they purchased several dogs from Bourgeous. Hemphill's kept only the highest caliber of these "Red Nose" dogs and began to form his foundation stock from them. Hemphill eventually kept only dogs of the red-nosed strain. According to Hemphill, it was McCoy who first started using the term "Old Family Red Nose" for the strain.Clark's Red Devil, an original OFRN foundation dog owned by Harry Clark and later given to Bob Hemphill. Clark's Red Devil is out of Clark's (Ebert's) Teddy x Hemphill's Goldie (a granddaughter of Lightner's Vick)
