
In the early 1950s, Hollywood partially dodged the ban on “excessive violence” for TV shows watched by children by having heroes like Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry shoot the guns out of the hands of the bad guys. In the real Old West, Lincoln County War Regulator George Coe lost his index finger when a bullet hit his gun during an 1878 gunfight. Surgically disarming a foe in this manner is actually a dangerous fantasy.
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In 1999, Bob Boze Bell and partners bought True West magazine (published since 1953) and moved the editorial offices to Cave Creek, Arizona. Bell has published and illustrated books on Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, as well as Classic Gunfights, an Old West gunfight book series. His latest books are The 66 Kid and True West Moments.