Celebrating Mucho Milestones And Millstones

 January 23, 2026

   This guy has a birthday today.

Top Hand Tom Bell

   He's 43. Where does the time go?

   Well, actually, here's where the time goes. . .

Milestones & Millstones

   We're celebrating quite a few milestones this year including the 100th year of Route 66, the 150th year for the Battle of The Little Big Horn and the 250th year for the United States of America.

   Hard to believe but this guy and I have been doing graphics together for 54 years!

BBB and Dan The Man

Shootout at The Chloride Corral

(circa 1959)

   And we've been friends for 70 years. That's just crazy. But not even close to as crazy as this guy being 99 years old and still kickin' on 66. And, he was a barber for 75 years in Seligman and I am proud to say he cut my hair back in the nineties.

Angel Delgadillo, 99 and counting

all the while hawking his new book

   Angel is being featured in the next issue of True West magazine in our popular What History Has Taught Me department.

   The magazine itself is in its 73rd year. How's that for mucho milestones?

   One more BBB and Big D shot circa 1962:

Two Kingman Kids On A

Montgomery Ward's Moped

   So that's plenty of milestones. And, as for those "millstones". . .

"It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin."

—Luke 17:2