Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid And Neither Do Artists Seeking History All Over The World

 October 8, 2024

   In 2015 Kathy Sue lined up a van Gogh tour for me and the Ds (Dan and Darlene Harshberger), starting in Amsterdam and down to Nunen, thru Brussels to Paris on the train and on to Arles and San Marie, San Remy, then back to Auver-sur-Oise where Vincent cashed out.

BBB at San Remy in the south of France

(note the plaid overshirt over my arm)

BBB in a bar in Auvers-sur-Oise

(same plaid overshirt)

   Fast forward to Saint Jo, Missouri in 2023 when Mark Lee Gardner took me into the courthouse to show me the actual bench where Robert and Charlie Ford were booked on April 3, 1882.

Another Plaid Suspect Arraigned

(photo by Mark Lee Gardner)

We Get Mail

   "Congratulations on the reward you will be receiving from the Will Rogers people next week. I will not be there, but I have harangued you on article ideas since you bought True West magazine and moved it from Stillwater."

—Mike Coppock

Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska

What's In A Name?

   Everything. I see him as a cross between a Mexican Uncle Sam and Son of Sam Clemens. 

Daily Whip Out: "Old Vaquero #41"

"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance."

—Old Vaquero Saying