Barbequed with a hint of barley smoke could describe Sony Music’s new Western tunesmith and vocalist Trent Willmon. But whatever you do, don’t call him a cowboy. Having grown up with the Real McCoy on a ranch in West Texas, Trent reveres that special breed—the guys who don’t have a retirement plan and work dawn to dusk for $60 a day. “My heroes have always been cowboys,” says Trent, matter-of-factly. If not cowboy, then how to describe this new kid who’s found himself on Sony’

November/December 2004
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- A True Country Brew
- Did Frank James die in the last shoot-out with the Ford that was still living?
- Who was Billy Wilson?
- Do you think Custer was seeking glory at Little Bighorn? And would he have turned down a presidential nomination if offered?
- Was Tom Horn a hired gun in the Pleasant Valley War?
- Following the Arkansas River
- Are there pictures of Zwing Hunt?
- As a girl in Kingman, Arizona, I took music lessons from Mrs. Cole, whose husband Walter told me he had been The Tombstone Epitaph editor and that he coined the phrase “Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die.”
- Did the Indians really use smoke signals or is that something out of Hollywood?