I am just about positive that Utah got the idea of telling the tale from my 1975 LP record for Kicking Mule. I'd been telling it for several years before I recorded it. I read it in Thorp's book. Then I changed it around and it morphed some more in the next few years. Of course, Jack Thorp never had a pun on Studs Terkel's name in his book. That just happened one night in the early 1970s. I liked it, so it stayed.

Utah told a truncated version of it on Garrison Keillor's radio program. Strangely, Bruce sounded pretty hurried or nervous on that show. Maybe there were time constraints on him. I've been told that, back in those days, Garrison was rather reluctant to have other talk-oriented raconteurs on his show. --

-- Still, I felt hurt when Utah never gave me credit for either the "Great Turtle Drive" tale OR the "Egg Settin' Horse" story.

Such is life,
Art