January 30, 2025
Without a doubt, one of my favorite headlines we have ever run in the magazine happened wayyy back in the beginning before we settled in to a long tradition of excellent headlines.
Here is the back story.
Me and two crazy friends—McCubbin and Baish—bought True West magazine in the fall of 1999 and strapped in for a bumpy takeoff. A year later, we were all in Tombstone for a big showdown with two rival Earp camps which we styled as—The Barra Gang vs. The Boyer Gang, and it all hit the fan at Schieffelin Hall. We featured the shout-out and the aftermath in the magazine like this:
Aping the headline in the Tombstone Epitaph on October 27, 1881, one of our sub-heads reads:
Three Men Hurled Into Puberty
In The Duration of A Moment
Truer words were never type-set for publication. If you want to know who those puberty-challenged writers are, get this back issue of True West—Feb-March 2001 but be forewarned, it is a true collector's item and issues will run you $300.
If you don't have that kind of cash laying around, look for an upcoming issue of the Tombstone Epitaph where we will run a condensed version of this six-page classic.
"If both sides did as much research as they did badmouthing each other, we'd know a lot more about Wyatt Earp."
—Ben Traywick
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