PAUL HAMBLIN, COWBOY SINGER, DUDE WRANGLER SUCCUMBS IN LOS ANGELES
...Spending a goodly share of his boyhood days at sheep and cow camps, he learned to know the ways of the southwest and to love the great outdoors. Later when the Grand Canyon began to attract tourists he became a dude wrangler and piloted many people from every part of the United States on trips to the various points of the mountain.
He was a young man with an attractive personality, who was full of energy and life; and having a natural musical voice, often entertained tourists at the V.T. Park Hotel. It was here he first became known as the cowboy singer. Later he went to Los Angeles where he attracted attention by singing cowboy songs over the radio at stations KFI and KMPC. While here he was employed by the Victor Company to make records of his favorite cowboy songs, "Strawberry Roan" and "Under Dakota's Cross".
On July 25, 1930, he married Beverly Dunham, daughter of Otis Emmerson Dunham of Beverly Massachusetts, and since that time while in this section of the country he spent most of his time at the beautiful Cave Lakes in Kanab Canyon eight miles north of the town of Kanab. This place the young couple made into a "dude ranch".
Some years ago, he became ill with spleen trouble due, it is thought to injuries received when a bronco he was riding some years ago threw him off against a rock at Two Mile on the mountain and kicked him...
Kane County Standard - 2/24/1933
Remains forwarded by Francis V. Hall & Son to Kanab Utah, for services and interment.