Johnny D. Boggs

Photo of Johnny D. Boggs Fueled by a lifelong passion for American history and a more recent desire to make mortgage payments, Spur Award-winning author Johnny D. Boggs has written more than 20 nonfiction books and novels, plus thousands of newspaper and magazine articles. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, son and basset hound.


Stories by Johnny D. Boggs

Worst Turkeys of the West

Gobble gobble goofs that will make you laugh.

Author Johnny D. Boggs Date 11/01/2008
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Wyatt & Witches & Pixies, Oh My!

Wyatt Earp was a fairy. Don't aim your pistols at me. I'm not outing anybody. Neither is Emma Bull.

Author Johnny D. Boggs Date 09/01/2008
Stutterin' Across Jimmy Stewart Country

Crawling along the freeway in Los Angeles, I'm moving about as fast as Jimmy Stewart talked.

Author Johnny D. Boggs Date 09/01/2008
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The West's Best Saloons

I'm sitting in some waterin' hole with Sherry Monahan.

Author Johnny D. Boggs Date 08/01/2008
Monument Valley's 50th

It's quiet. Too quiet. At any moment, I know—I can feel it—that I'm about to be attacked by a tribe of plein air painters!

Author Johnny D. Boggs Date 07/01/2008
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Run Out of Town On a Rail

Riding the Southwest Chief from Kansas City to Los Angeles.

Author Johnny D. Boggs Date 06/01/2008
Tramping Through Our National Parks With John Muir

From Yosemite Valley to Los Angeles, California.

Author Johnny D. Boggs Date 06/01/2008
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Dodge City's All-Stars

Looking back, 125 years later, at the peace commission photo.

Author Johnny D. Boggs Date 05/01/2008
Forting Up On the Apache Trail

From Tucson, Arizona, to Lawton, Oklahoma.

Author Johnny D. Boggs Date 05/01/2008
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Surviving the Santa Fe Indian Market

And why it’s the “Indian Artist Oscars.”

Author Johnny D. Boggs Date 05/01/2008