July 9, 2025
Time to bail into some local landscapes.
"The Back Way to New River"
Got some decent reference material out my front door. Also, I sometimes draw straight from my aging memory banks. . .
Daily Whip Out: "My Hometown at Dusk"And, speaking of my hometown, one of the greatest second basemen I ever played with, just passed today. Allen Tapija was an all around wonderful guy and a proud Hualapai, first and foremost. He is the one who dubbed me "Bak Chuk" which he told me means—in Hualapai—"the boy who made us laugh," a moniker I am very proud of.
(1947-2025)
Back out on the outlaw trail.
(that's allegedly John, standing)
John Kinney's grave in Prescott(Found this time by Craig Schepp)
One positive thing about history lovers is that, unlike most of your relatives, we actually visit graveyards.
"I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have —When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do."
—Harry S. Truman
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