September 9, 2024
On September 9, 1999, Bob McCubbin and I flew to Guthrie, Oklahoma, rented a car, and drove to Stillwater to pay way too much for a dying magazine we loved. That this magazine is still being published today is a miracle on top of several other miracles!
In March, Stuart Rosebrook and I drove from the Tucson Festival of Books down to Green Valley to meet historian Greg Scott so we could drive out to the actual site where Willie B. Rude defended himself in a mesquite thicket against a force of 100 Apaches. Not far from that site is the above site in Amado and I must say, that is a miracle right there.
And, then there are the four-legged miracles.
Meanwhile, farther south. . .
Daily Whip Out: "The Leg Warmer""I’ve been cataloguing a list of Jana’s True West articles from 2003 through 2024 for ASU, where her papers will reside, and I am blown away by both the amount and depth of her stories. They really make up an encyclopedia of the characters—particularly the women—who were a colorful part of 'How the West Was Won.' Sometimes she wrote more than one article an issue. I knew she was passionate about the history of the west but really had no idea she wrote so much! Amazing."
—Athia Hardt
One possibility for you barefoot amigo. Were the picture clearer we could know more definitely. The Yaqui Indians of Sonora immediately south of Guaymas and their ‘cousins’ the Mayos on southward into Sinaloa do a Deer Dance. The male dancers wrap their usually bare legs with an interesting rattle made of the cocoons of a giant silk moth with a small pebble placed inside and strung together. They also dance with hand held gourd rattles do the create a bit of noise as they dance. The music is usually played by musicians using a violin, a guitar and quite often harp about the size of a Celtic harp although some use a harp the size you might see in a full orchestra. Many of these instruments are locally made but good imported instruments are increasingly available. Perhaps your well hatted fellow is a dancer. The above mentioned dance is danced barefoot as well.
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