Crazy Horse Begats A Crazier Version

 September 26, 2025

    We had big storms roll in all day long. 

Storm Clouds Over Ratcliff Ridge

   We got flash flood warnings on our phones around noon, and I had an appointment in town but when I drove over the hill, both washes were running a little too fast for comfort so I came home. Changed my apointment for 3:30, then got another storm warning at two, saying to not go out on the roads until 5:30.

   Like The French I have always been high on the name Crazy Horse. It just sounds so, well, just crazy cool. Of course, they borrowed it for a famous Paris strip club and I borrowed it for an Old West character I have long been inspired to write about.

Daily Whip Out: "Crazy Whore"

   Relax. She came by it honestly, escaping from two loonie bins and a logging camp.

   Speaking of classic stories, here is a twist on one of the best: The story of Felix Telles and his hunt for the Apache Kid is the inside-out version of "The Searchers." A captured Mexican kid who grows up as an Apache and becomes an army scout, renamed Mickey Free. That much is historically true. Most people don't know that the army wanted to send him into Mexico to hunt for the elusive Apache Kid (who killed his guards on the way to prison and escaped) and there was talk of teaming him with a buffalo soldier, and the legendary cowboy Tom Horn. Three outcasts on a legendary mission in a country about to explode into revolution. Free is a mongrel American, both loved and hated and completely misunderstood. Now this is a story for our times.

"I'll keep an eye out for you."

—Mickey Free