![]() ![]() ![]() ĭuring the late 1930s, Gibbons was still giving "more time to his political activity than to his work, and more time to wild food than to politics." : 100 After the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939, however, he renounced Communism and spent most of World War II in Hawaii, building and repairing boats for the Navy. Later in the 1930s he settled in Seattle, served a stint in the Army, married, and worked as a carpenter, surveyor, and boatbuilder. The early years of the Dust Bowl era found Gibbons in California, where he lived as a self-described “bindle stiff” : 98 ( hobo) and, in sympathy with labor causes, began writing Communist Party leaflets. After leaving home at 15, he drifted throughout the Southwest, finding work as a dairyman, carpenter, trapper, gold panner, and cowboy. ĭuring one difficult interval of homesteading, Gibbons began foraging for local plants and berries to supplement the family diet. His father drifted from job to job, usually taking his family (a wife and four children) with him. Gibbons was born in Clarksville, Texas, on September 8, 1911, and spent much of his youth in the hilly terrain of northwestern New Mexico. ![]() Euell Theophilus Gibbons (Septem– December 29, 1975) was an outdoorsman and early health food advocate, promoting eating wild foods during the 1960s. ![]()
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