For more than 50 years Bob taught, trained, supported, and often housed stuntwomen and stuntmen at his home and training facility in the San Fernando Valley. Bob Yerkes is one of the premier stuntman in the world. He has received the World Acrobatics Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award – Gallery of Acrobatic Legends.

Helen Gibson Silent Serial Queen is a book by Larry Telles about the life of a woman who spent her 51 year career in film, rodeo, circus and vaudeville. In 1930 she became Hollywood's first professional stunt woman for many major studios. She was fearless in her career and life on and off the screen.