Buffalo Bill Gets on Track
In the year 1869, dime novel king Ned Buntline aspired to write one of his corkers about Frank North, the famed scout and Indian fighter who was known as the “white chief of the Pawnee.” The two met to talk it over. North turned down the exposure: “If you want a man...
Phil Collins
To me, Fess Parker was the “Davy Crockett” who started this journey off for me. Full stop. My basement has my Alamo stuff and my studio. Also my boys’ playroom. They all seem to live together nicely! Eric Clapton seemed very impressed with the depth of my new Alamo...
28 Moments of Entrapment
Billy the Kid“Who remembers Billy the Kid?” Harvey Fergusson wrote in 1925. Today, everybody does, thanks to Walter Noble Burns’s book the following year, 60-odd movies and countless biographies and novels. We don’t really know where or when he was born, but the trail...
Enchantment Meets Entrapment
In 1949, in an act of profound sagacity uncommon to our normally dysfunctional state legislature, the Roadrunner was designated as the official state bird of New Mexico. Now Roadrunner is not a common creature, such as other state birds, like the puny Cactus Wren in...
True West January/February 2025
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