Bob Boze Bell, Author at True West Magazine

A Long Shot: Buffalo Hunters vs. Quanah Parker’s Warrior

by Bob Boze Bell | Mar 1, 2021

THE SECOND BATTLE OF ADOBE WALLS FEATURES THE LEGENDARY 1,538- YARD SHOT HEARD ’ROUND CAMPFIRES EVER SINCE: June 27, 1874 ...

Here’s to Hitting the Trail – Again!

by Bob Boze Bell | Mar 1, 2021

Is it my imagination, or can we see some daylight on the horizon from here? Dare I say, some of us are even making plans for hitting the road...

Classic Gunfights: A Deadly Duel at 500 Yards

by Bob Boze Bell | Jan 25, 2021

Bass Reeves vs Jim Webb - The master of the long shot, indeed. (Based on the research of Art Burton) Out on the Whiskey Trail in Oklahoma Territory,...

Black and Blue

by Bob Boze Bell | Jan 20, 2021

Some things just have to be said. In this time of renewed racial contention, it is somehow fitting—and timely—that one of the unsung heroes of the...

Trapped! 31 Mexican Vaqueros VS Geronimo

by Bob Boze Bell | Dec 16, 2020

Patricio Valenzuela, the hacendado (ranch owner) of the Agua Fria hacienda, eight miles east of Cucurpe in Sonora, Mexico, is alerted by his...

The good news first: the end of the 1918 influenza pandemic in 1920 led almost directly to the Roaring Twenties because everyone in the country was so ready to kick out the jams after all the death and depressing times. So let’s hope that history repeats itself this year.

¿Quien Es? Billy the Kid vs Pat Garrett

by Bob Boze Bell | Nov 3, 2020

For her he took a bullet in the heart.

The Kids Return

by Bob Boze Bell | Nov 2, 2020

This issue marks the return of two of my favorite “Kids.” One is the legendary outlaw who sparked in me a lifetime of research on his short and violent life, and the other is the legendary scholar who, so far, has had a long and peaceful life, interrupted by eloquent tirades against the machine.