Three Generations of Bandit Behavior

 July 14, 2026

   Of all the days on the calendar, it was today—July 14—that an infamous American outlaw was ambushed and killed in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

Daily Whip Out: "Billy at Midnight"

   It took me quite a while to make it to the site of that killing but in 1984 I finally made the trip.

   And, of course, there is a new show on the Traveling Wake of Billy the Kid which opens this weekend (July 18) with the unveiling of Buckeye Blake's sculpture of the Kid in death

The Traveling Wake of Billy the Kid Tour Begins

   Today, I realized that perhaps my lifelong obsession with outlaws and bandits runs in the family. A couple examples follow.

Me and Dan Harshberger at White Hills, AZ

circa 1958

Tommy Bell, Cave Creek, AZ circa 1987

Tommy, at right, as The Kid

(that's my late friend Doc Ingalls on left)

Tommy Bell's son, Fenton, yesterday.

"Quien es?"

—Billy the Kid's last words ("Who is it?")