April 14, 2005
We've got a new poll up and I really want to know what you think about this one: Was the Old West more or less violent than today? Vote here.

There is this entire wing of Western history today that believes the cowboy—gunfighter aspect of the Western frontier has been horribly overstated. I’ve seen entire books attempting to prove that the West was no more violent than Minneapolis. In fact, we need to do a piece on this in the magazine.

I’m still intrigued by the fact that I mention Wyatt Earp every day in here and it doesn’t seem to register on Google. Hmmmmm, I wonder if. . .

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But I digress.

Going up the hill this morning to the Northern Arizona Book Festival. Taking my son Tomas to Martan’s for lunch. Going to meet Tom Carpenter there. More later.

"“Words are nothing but words. Power lies in deeds. Be a person of action."
—Mali Oriot Mamadu Konyate