This is the time of year when we Zonies get more than a little crazy from the heat. We’ve had it up to here with the 24/7 oven blasts and we’re all about to have a psychotic break. The weather seems to sense this and uncannily matches our mood, with wild swings of weather from hot to cool, sprinkles to deluges. Everyone wants to flee this time of year, but those of us who stay are treated t

January/February 2004
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
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- New Mexico Piñon Coffee Company
- Narcissa Whitman
- Vera’s Cowboy Done Her Wrong
- From Wild Women to the Wild Plains
- A River Runs Through History
- When did American cowboys stop wearing Levi jeans?
- Did Cole Younger have any children? I ask because a doctor in town comes into my barbershop and claims to be his great-grandson.
- Breaking Out More Shovels
- Zip Zapped!
- Striking Similarities
- Chisholm Trail Heritage Center
- Jack Elam (1919-2003)
- Not Just Another Pretty Voice
- Those Singing Cowboys
- Deadwood Drama
- Vera’s Cowboy Done Her Wrong
- I’ve heard there was a passenger on the Titanic named William P. Longley, and that someone from the family of Wild Bill Longley identified the traveler as the outlaw. Evidently, Longley faked his death only to sink along with the Titanic. Is that true?
- How did Martha Jane Canary acquire the nickname “Calamity?”
- Did the old stagecoach route between Benson and Tucson follow what is today’s I-10?