Stanley Yelnats II is Stanley’s great-grandfather, who made a lot of money in the stock market. Unfortunately, his stagecoach is robbed by Kissin’ Kate Barlow when he is en route from New York to California. He is left stranded in the desert for three weeks. When asked how he survived, he always replies, “I found refuge on God’s thumb” (the same mountain that Stanley and Zero climb). He later marries the nurse who takes care of him in the hospital and always blames his “no-good-pig-stealing-father” for his ordeal.
