Howard Bryan, longtime cowboy writer, built this stellar career interviewing some of the most notorious cowboys in New Mexico. One of them was “Salty John” Cox.
In this excerpt from his new book, Bryan and Salty John tell the tale of a saloon brawl in Magdalena in 1910.
“About 75 of us were gathered in Ben Beagle’s saloon after the race when something was said or done that started a bang-up free-for-all,’ Cox said. ‘Bob Lewis, the deputy sheriff, heard the commotion in the bar and
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