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That Cowboy Stench

That Cowboy Stench

by | Nov 1, 2008 | Inside History

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

Sheriff’s Sale

by | Nov 1, 2008 | Art, Guns and Culture

“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...
Buckeye Blake

Buckeye Blake

by | Sep 1, 2008 | True Westerners

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...
The Taming of the Artist

The Taming of the Artist

by | Sep 1, 2008 | Art, Guns and Culture

The rise of Charlie Russell, and the wife who made him a star. This triumphant moment had all begun with a marital spat, Nancy liked to say. Charlie had accepted a commission in 1897 to paint little watercolors on 125 menus for a Christmas dinner at the Park Hotel in...