A Barn Worth Saving
“So, you’re the people who save things.” Bob McDaniel was looking for exactly those kind of people because this lifelong resident of Santa Ysabel, California, was on a mission to save a barn. Not just any barn, but the Dutch-style redwood Hoover Barn that...
It Always Rains After A Dry Spell
Back in 1980 future Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor, asked me to join her at the Lazy B over near the Arizona-New Mexico border to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ranch. Her grandfather Henry Clay Day established the outfit in 1880...
Mickey Free
We have brooded and argued and mulled over this fictional tale of Mickey Free for years now—sort of a personal Heart of Darkness. Our goal was a graphic novel that would be the basis for a film. Our journey became a metaphor for what we were attempting—a crazy cross...
The Trickster with the Sidewinder Gaze
Prologue PROVING GROUND The boy is emaciated. His mop of red hair hangs across his scarred face, obscuring a lost eye. He staggers and stumbles up the narrow mountain trail. Other boys are already coming down it. They pass him as if he does not exist. He wants to...
True West January/February 2025
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