An Outlaw’s Poet

When he was 13 years old, poet Red Shuttleworth came to a realization about the Old West. While on a school field trip in 1958 to the Jewish Cemetery in Colma, California, it hit Red that the legendary West didn’t happen a long time before. The West reached into the present, and he could know it for himself. He reached this conclusion while standing before the headstones of Wyatt Earp and his widow, Josie. “Josie had died in 1944. It dawned on me that people who knew her could still be ar