That Cowboy Stench
Having worked in the emergency room as a young physician throughout the 1970s, I learned the difference between human “sweat” and “stench,” as these apply to the presentation of different patients under a wide variety of circumstances. I concluded that “sweat is...
Sheriff’s Sale
“Quien es?” asked the lone figure standing in the dim-lit doorway. Instantly, two shots rang out from a darkened room, ending the life of one of the Old West’s most infamous characters, Henry McCarty, a.k.a. William Bonney, a.k.a. Henry Antrim, best known as Billy the...
Stutterin’ Across Jimmy Stewart Country
Crawling along the freeway in Los Angeles, I’m moving about as fast as Jimmy Stewart talked. James Maitland Stewart would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. He lived a wonderful life before his death in 1997 at age 89, working with some of the greatest...
Buckeye Blake
My favorite place in the West is northern Nevada. The Owyhee Range. It’s the distance. There’s nothing out there. At least, people say there’s nothing out there. Nothing is something. That distance has a real substance—a high desert place that certainly charges my...
True West March/April 2025
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