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...
Queen of the Cowtowns
When Dodge City’s founders staked out their vision for a town near Fort Dodge in 1872, its first business was George Hoover’s bar. He sold whiskey for 25 cents a ladle across a wood plank. The settlement was built just ahead of the tracks of the Santa Fe Railway, and...
Has the Apache Kid’s Daughter Been Found?
Caught between two worlds, Guadalupe Fimbres Muñoz had to make difficult choices for her future. She knew little of what was happening in the outside world when she was captured by Mexican rancheros in late 1914 or early 1915. A world war had begun, yet she had been...
True West March/April 2025
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