One day in 1937, in the bar of Tucson’s Santa Rita Hotel, the cowboy-actor Tom Mix gave seven-year-old Joe Brown a pair of buckskin chaps with “Joey” branded on them. Brown had been ill and the Hollywood star, a family friend, wanted to cheer him up.
Sitting in his home in the mountains outside Patagonia, Arizona, Brown remembers that Mix was dressed for town, in a new hat, suit and shiny boots. The boy
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