September 24, 2025
We've had some major storms roll through the high Sonoran Desert in the past several days. Last Saturday, when I was returning from a history talk out at Verrado in west Buckeye, I spied this bad boy roiling toward us on the outer loop of the Phoenix Metro Freeway System.
Big Storm Over The 303Here's a sneak peek at a new find by a True West reader. . .
Special thanks to Dean Shier who alerted us to the possibility. Dean adds. . .
"I first saw what I thought was Earp at 9:26 and 10:22 and then again at 10:31, back against the wall with his distinctive mustache at what seems to be a Faro table sitting next to two Chinese men, one smoking an opium pipe. He seems to have on the exact same overcoat that you see other extras wearing walking, sitting and standing in the bar. A long gray duster coat with black side pockets and a black collar. The man directly across from Earp at the Faro table has this same jacket on, smoking a cigar with a tophat."
—Dean Shier
As a follow up to the passing of our friend Jay Dusard, I just found this video Mark McDowell of Cattletrack Arts Compound fame produced for our True Westerner Award presentation last March at Old Tucson. It is a very fitting obituary to boot.
Great times we had with the birthday boy in Bisbee earlier this year.
"When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that." – Margaret Atwood
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