– Illustrations by Bob Boze Bell – Like so many bad trips, this one started out as a fun adventure. The so-called Brewster wagon train departed...
A Continuous Picnic Goes South
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Bob Boze Bell
Hats off to 1883
Our new favorite show in the Land of the Nitpickers. All Images of “1883” Courtesy Paramount+/Robert Duvall Image Courtesy CBS Television We love...
Tombstone Redux
Let’s find someone to refilm Kevin Jarre’s original script and complete his dream. Thanks to Jeff Morey, the historical consultant on Tombstone I...
Cave Creek Ambush
December 22, 1873 Tonto Apaches vs Al Sieber and the 5th Cavalry Stationed at Camp McDowell, northeast of Phoenix, A.T., a unit of the 5th...
An O.K. Day!
Funny what a hunch can produce. I didn’t see any ads or notices about the event in Tombstone. I just knew I had to be there, in the corral, for the...
Double-Barreled Justice
October 27, 1873 Rowdy Joe Lowe vs. Big Red Beard “Mollie” Takes One in the Stomach In His Cups & Blue Whistlers Big Red Beard is deep in his...
The Seekers
It has become somewhat of a tradition at True West magazine to do a mountain man on the December cover. In the past two decades we have run at least...
Lay Lady Gay
January 24, 1876 | Bat Masterson vs. Melvin King Mollie Protects Her Man Three Different Versions of the Fight Fresh off the killing fields, some...
Poetry in Motion
Ben Johnson knew how to set a horse. In our universe there are numerous classic cowboy stars, and then there is one true cowboy who also became a...
Why did it Become Known as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
The “Gunfight in the Vacant Lot—Next to Fly’s—Down the Block From The Rear Entrance to the O.K. Corral.” Nope, won’t work. It wouldn’t fit on a...
Shoot-out at Cottonwood Springs?
Wyatt Earp vs. Curly Bill Brocius March 24, 1882 Map by Gus Walker Based on the research of Bill Evans Wyatt Earp and his men take breakfast...
Wider Herd
Long may our stories be told. When my Illustrated Life and Times of Wyatt Earp book was first published (1993), I did a book-signing at the...