An Old True West Doorstop Finds A New Home

 July 26, 2025

I had a great lunch yesterday at Tonto Bar & Grill with the first ladies of True West magazine and that would be Sheri Riley Jensen, Rebecca Edwards and our longtime business manager, Carole Compton Glenn (1999-2023).

Sheri, BBB, Rebecca and Carole at Tonto

Carole brought me a gift of a doorstop from the True West offices in Stillwater, Oklahoma. It is basically a heavy rock with a kachina on it. She saved it when she went to Stillwater to work with the former owners of the magazine on cleaning up the financials and to learn their methods. She told me they were cleaning out the offices when she was there and she "just took it." Ha. So funny if you know Carole. This was back when we first bought the magazine in the fall of 1999 and the former owner's offices were in Stillwater.

The Rock That Stopped The Doors

I brought the treasured doorstop home and laid it on this broken wall tribute so it looks like Carole threw it through our front window and broke the glass. All in good humor, of course. Carole would never do that, but you have to agree that makes for a better story!

Yes, in the fall of 1999, Bob McCubbin and I flew to Guthrie, rented a car and drove to Stillwater to do this:

 "Oh, my Lord! What have we done?!" 

—Bob McCubbin after we signed the check, took this photo and started to drive away