Monday, November 02, 2009

November 2, 2009
We have been doing this magazine for ten years and in all that time I can't recall a typo that has created such an uproar (the photograph in the current issue that identifies Guy Madison as Jock Mahoney):



I have received dozens of emails (I got two today), two hand written letters and several phone calls. This afternoon I got a call from Bridget Madison, Guy Madison's oldest daughter, who said she heard about the mistake from her friend, Dave Snowden, who is the Beverly Hills Chief of Police. She called from Long Beach and was very sweet. She lost her son in Iraq. We are sending her a True West magazine with the gaffe in it.

Here's the website for her and her father:

Man, he was a handsome guy!

"Wait for me Wild Bill!"
—Jingles, played by Andy Devine of Kingman, Arizona fame

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