Mountain Man Passed Today

[evolutionkennels]

REST IN PEACE. MOMENT OF SILENCE.

[brokeback]

RIP Mountain Man

[Milo]

R.I.P. to a true legend.

[Handsome84]

R.I.P. Mr. Lester Hughes a.k.a. The Mountain Man

[ToTheDogs]

A very sad day. We spent several hours talking with Lester on the phone, learning and listening to his wisdom and experiences.

Got to visit his yard in 2007. Had a very nice time.

[sam i am]

Rest in Peace Mr Hughes...

[BONEDADDY]

R.I.P. The game will bemissing a true legend. Our prayers are with the family.

[scratchin dog]

Rest In Peace Mountain Man.

[Officially Retired]

On my very first trip to the dog world, I met Lester Hughes and bought my first Hollingsworth dog from him in July of 1990.

Rest In Peace to the man himself and another chapter in Gamedog History.

[EWO]

First and foremost, thoughts and prayers to his family and friends. They have lost a true man. A sad loss to our community because we have lost a true dog man, a dog man in every sense of the word. A living legend in his time and now a legend forever. May he rest in peace. EWO.

[Dogmaster]

R.I.P. Mtn. Man. one of the all time greats. A friend of mine M. Edwards bought this gyp from him as an puppy http://www.thepitbullbible.com/forum/bulldog_profile.php?dog_id=3400 she turned out to be a very good gyp. I had several off her that were awesome dogs

[U.G.K]

First and foremost, thoughts and prayers to his family and friends. They have lost a true man. A sad loss to our community because we have lost a true dog man, a dog man in every sense of the word. A living legend in his time and now a legend forever. May he rest in peace. EWO. VERY WELL SAID. R.I.P

[evolutionkennels]

On my very first trip to the dog world, I met Lester Hughes and bought my first Hollingsworth dog from him in July of 1990.

Rest In Peace to the man himself and another chapter in Gamedog History.


Great picture

[Officially Retired]

Thanks.

I still have a video of Truman coming out of his doghouse on Lester's yard + a video of Ch Homer's grave.

Have a plan to convert all of my original video footage to clips for display on here, and will eventually get Homer's grave shot here and on his webpage.

Mountain Man (when I visited him) had one of the coolest yard setups I had ever seen, still to this day.

After checking out the dogs, we started rolling some in a side barn, right alongside the highway :lol:

Those "free & easy" days are gone now though ...

Jack

[evolutionkennels]

Thanks.

I still have a video of Truman coming out of his doghouse on Lester's yard + a video of Ch Homer's grave.

Have a plan to convert all of my original video footage to clips for display on here, and will eventually get Homer's grave shot here and on his webpage.

Mountain Man (when I visited him) had one of the coolest yard setups I had ever seen, still to this day.

After checking out the dogs, we started rolling some in a side barn, right alongside the highway :lol:

Those "free & easy" days are gone now though ...

Jack

Well get on it! :)

[ToTheDogs]

Even as an old man in 07. He was nice enough to show us 2 sons of GRCH Two Boy. They were very game dogs.

Damn shame his son isn't 1% of the dogman he was..

[MRBLUEPRINT]

Even as an old man in 07. He was nice enough to show us 2 sons of GRCH Two Boy. They were very game dogs.

Damn shame his son isn't 1% of the dogman he was..


I'll miss my friend a lot but, Two Boy wasn't a Gr.Ch. he was never hooked at all.
As for his son not being 1% of the man Lester was....there are very few in the dogs today that rate much higher.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o152/BDMAFIA/breedings/ShortcutbredtoCHQuicksand.jpg

[SGC]

I am very sorry to read this... Rest in Peace Mr. Hughes. Goodbye to a legend and a fine gentleman. My condolences to his family for his loss.

[CYJ]

V. Jackson and self met and talked with Mr. Hughes on several occasions. Many times we were all at the same dog shows. Sometimes he had a dog entered. I got to go up in those mountains on two occasions. In the winter it is cold, but not to bad in the Spring and Summer.

I was a younger dog man that was privileged to be among those older dog men, one evening at Mr. Teal's restaurant. Mr. Hughes honored Mr. Teal with a Picture Platt of Mr. Teal and some older dog men of their time era. With Mr. Hughes picture near the bottom. Mr. Hughes may have had two made. Mr.Teal died some years back before Mr. Hughes. The Teal Family may have returned this Platt back to Mr. Hughes for a remembrance of his old friend. The Platt Mr. Hughes kept is shown in a tribute to Him and His dogs on the You Tube.

Mr. Hughes was a soft spoken man that I never saw lose His cool, winning or losing. He will be greatly missed by all, especially his family. If all dog men conducted themselves like Mr. Hughes did in and out side the show ring. The game would be much nicer to participate in. Cheers

[Chase1]

R.I.P. My friend.

I don't think we really appreciate this old timers the way we should tell their actually gone... Its just not the knowledge these guys have, its the way they carry them selfs inside and outside the box. they really are gentleman and make it a gentlemen sport cuz those types of people area lost breed and now a days it just a bunch of clowns who just so happen to run into good dogs and don't even have a clue what to do with them..the game just aint the same no more and its only going to get worse over the years.. Theirs no one to set an example or look up to anymore...Just a bunch of cocaine cowboys running around making this game into shit... this game should be one big family, who should have each others backs, no matter what..No hating on each other but just congradulating on the better dogman, when ones in trouble, theirs five more dogman to help them out..We should have BBQ every weekend with beers and trees, enjoying each other company and stories, taking care of each other..I don't no, call me crazy...

WRITTEN BY KAMENOS

[Nut]

Nice words Kamenos. Little reason to dedicate your life to bulldogs, still its so damn addictive.

R.i.p.

[gabbagabbahey]

A sad day indeed,but the man sure lived his life to the full. Not forgetting serving in WW2.
I always thought of him as up there with the very best & quite content to sit back & let his dogs do the talking.
Does anyone know who his first dogs were & who he got them from ?
Would have loved to read his life story......

[captain]

Funeral program
http://www.thepitbullbible.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=459&stc=1&d=1389406810

[CYJ]

Mr. Hughes lived a long life. I hope I live to be 90 years old. My condolence to all his family.

[Blueprint]

RIP to a true legend.

[The Old Timer.]

R.I.P MR. HUGHES, CONDOLENCE TO HIS FAMILY MEMBERS.

[Pit Bull Committed]

NICE PHOTOGRAPH THERE JACK!

[Lasse]

May his soul rest in peace! A sad day indeed, not only for the dog world as it is said Lester Hughes treated everybody with respect and honesty who made his way up to him through the North Carolina mountains, whether it was someone who was just starting with the dogs or a well experienced dog man - he was a true gentleman of the kind which is just so rare these days.

An aquaintance of mine had visited him twice and "one felt to have been carried back for decades". The first time in the summer of 1997 right before The Old Mountain Man had been down on his luck the next winter when there was rather much snow and the melting of the snow must have set in so quickly, the creek which ran through his property turned into a rapid river in a few minutes and snatched all, dogs, Homer's tombstone, cottage, puppy pens. The flood had to have come so quickly there was no chance at all for saving one single dog. The second visit was in April 1999 after Mr. Hughes had moved to a new place next to his former house since his old estate had been destroyed last winter. "However, when talking to Lester, one felt that he missed his old place, where he had lived for about 40 years."


"He is not a man who brags about his many accomplishments or has anything negative to say about another dog man, and his word is his bond. He doesn't get involved in any of the petty squabbles or gossip so prevalent in the dog game, and is a remnant from an era when all that was required to seal business deal was a handshake and one's word."

Ed & Chris Faron, The Complete Gamedog


@gabbagabbahey
"I started fighting dogs when I was a teenager. Back then everyone had some kind of dog, and there was always a dogfight going on somewhere around here. I had a big Collie then, supposedly a pure-bred but looking back, I imagine there must've been some bulldog in him because he had a big 'ol head with big lips and must've weighed about seventy-five pounds. His name was "Jack". We used to take him all over the Country and he whipped just about every dog in the area that anyone had. I got my first good dogs from a man in Tennessee... One of the first dogs he matched was his old "Ranger" dog, a son of Cotton's Bullet."

Ed & Chris Faron, The Complete Gamedog

[Donnybrook]

On my very first trip to the dog world, I met Lester Hughes and bought my first Hollingsworth dog from him in July of 1990.

Rest In Peace to the man himself and another chapter in Gamedog History.


great pic

[Sandbar]

RIP