Dust Devil Forming A Cowboy Musical Intro Looming

 January 16, 2025

   Caught this dust devil forming up on Rockaway Hills yesterday. 

Dust Devil Forming In Horse Arena

   Very unusual for our neighborhood. The land is chopped up creek bottom (that's five of the Seven Sisters across the creek) so it's not the best recipe for the formation of these mini-twisters. 

Dust Devil Stage Two

(and there's six of the Seven Sisters)

   In fact, in all of the 38 years we've lived out here, this is the first one I recall seeing. Now, growing up in Kingman I would see three at a time for breakfast, cruising across Hilltop where we lived.

   Meanwhile, I got a request from my friends down at Scottsdale Museum of the West to introduce a few of their upcoming films. Here is a taste of the first films to play in the series:

1/27 @2PM Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

1/28 @2PM Calamity Jane  

1/29 @2PM Rhythm on the Range  

1/30 @2PM The Marx Brothers in Go West

1/31 @10AM An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

@1PM Disney’s Home on the Range  

2/1 @10AM Disney’s Home on the Range

@1PM  An American Tail: Fievel Goes West  

2/2 @2PM Oklahoma!

   When I responded that these Westerns were a tad outside my comfort zone, the Chief Curator sent me this reply:

"The world’s biggest stickler for historical accuracy in Westerns doesn’t like movies where the cowboys spontaneously burst into carefully coordinated song-and-dance numbers? I don’t believe it."

—Andrew Patrick Nelson, Chief Curator at Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West