Lon Megargee is often characterized as Arizona’s original cowboy artist. He was born in 1883 just about the time Buffalo Bill Cody was transforming the lowly, open range cowboy into a more lofty role of swashbuckling hero. It was also the golden age of yarn spinning and verbal hoaxing that became known as the tall tale. Megargee’s own life is a classic western tale of re-invention an
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