Bob Boze Bell, Author at True West Magazine

Show Low vs a Straight Flush

by Bob Boze Bell | May 8, 2015

Two ranchers, Corydon Cooley and Marion Clark, decided the valley they lived in wasn’t big enough for the both of them. They played a card game to...

Dust-Up in Delta

by Bob Boze Bell | May 8, 2015

September 7, 1893 Not many folks are out and about on this stifling hot Thursday morning in Delta, Colorado. At 10:15 a.m., fifteen minutes after...

Is This a Photograph of Billy Playing Croquet?

by Bob Boze Bell | Apr 28, 2015

This photo, found in a shoebox of tintypes at an antique store in Fresno, California, has caused quite a stir. The owner believes it was taken near...

Apache Endurance

by Bob Boze Bell | Apr 22, 2015

Captured by Sonoran mercenaries near Esqueda, Sonora, Mexico (south of present-day Douglas, Arizona), in the mid-1860s, Dilcthe was sold into...

Whirlwind of the Prairies

by Bob Boze Bell | Apr 3, 2015

As a renowned frontier scout, he was known as “Comanche Jack” and “Wildcat Jack.” The Comanches referred to him as “Whirlwind of the Prairies.” His...

Blood on the Tracks

by Bob Boze Bell | Mar 31, 2015

March 20, 1882 Two days after assassins kill Morgan Earp, Wyatt Earp has spent his 34th birthday attending to the details of shipping his younger...

The Switch?

by Bob Boze Bell | Mar 13, 2015

On a cold night in March of 1881 outlaws tried to rob the Tombstone to Benson stage. When one of the highwaymen yelled out "Halt!" the shotgun...

Jar Head!

by Bob Boze Bell | Mar 13, 2015

July 25, 1853 Saddling up at 2 a.m. Harry Love and his fellow California Rangers ride out of their rugged mountain camp and make their way to...

Kit Carson’s Horseback Duel

by Bob Boze Bell | Jan 13, 2015

August 1835 The large French-Canadian trapper Joseph Chouinard is roaring drunk and on a day-long rampage at the annual trapper’s rendezvous on the...