Bob Boze Bell's Big Bad Book of Bad Diary Entries

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Thursday, March 07, 2013

A New Wild Bill Hickok Image?

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March  7, 2013,    Got an interesting new photo from my good friend Richard Sheaff. We sent it to Wild Bill Hickok expert in England.The...
Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Sirring A Drink With A Red Hot Poker

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March 6, 2013    Went out to get the newspaper yesterday morning and caught this sunrise over Ratcliff Ridge:    I'm proofing the n...
Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Lone Lights & 350 Yard Shots

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March 5, 2013 I'm doing a Classic Gunfight on the Triangle Springs shootout between George Scarborough and members of the Wild Bunch. J...
Monday, March 04, 2013

Back From The Brink

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March 4, 2013    Here's a message that made my day: I have been a True West reader for many years.  A couple of years ago I stopped r...

The Tonto Toast

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March 4, 2013    Great weekend at home. Worked almost non-stop on a piece for a local restauranteur. Had a decent sketch of the principal f...
Saturday, March 02, 2013

Bedtime Stories for Bozo

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March 2, 2013 Still working on the the Toast of The Town assignment. This morning I whipped out a black and white of the two figures: Ge...
Friday, March 01, 2013

An Apache Toast to Good Times

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March 1, 2013    Working on a challenging image for a client. He has a restaurant named for a cowboy and one named for an Apache tribe so n...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Welcome to the World of BBB Art

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February 28, 2013    Been crazy busy working on several project. The most ambitious of the four is this little site: Bob Boze Bell Art...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The Hot Rods of Allen P. Bell

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February 26, 2013   My father was a bit of a hot rodder. Some of my earliest memories are of driving home from visiting Hauan and Bell rela...
Monday, February 25, 2013

King of The Clouds

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February 25, 2013 Worked the last week on a new True West Moment featuring one of my favorite artists. Did a sketch of him based on a 1930s...

Shotguns at Midnight: The Virgil Earp Shooting

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February 25, 2013   Several years ago (2006?) video shooter Mike Pelligatti and I, along with Paul Hutton and a sound man, traveled down to...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Poaching Notes From The Road Gurus

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February 24, 2013    Quite cool out today. I've had a fire in my studio stove all day. Snuggled in and went through my clip file for th...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

The Roadside Stop That Changed My Life

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February 23, 2012    In the late 1950s we were coming back to Arizona from Iowa when I actually got my father to stop at a place I had pick...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Texas Ranger Border Etiquette

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February 22, 2013    Delving into the heart of "The Grapes of Wrath" now. They just buried grandpa illegally alongside the road. ...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Fay Wray Weighs In On New Mexico Mexican Food

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February 21, 2013    I forgot to post a Lone Light painting I did a couple days ago of Zane Gray's cabin in twilight:   Daily Whipou...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

One Crazy Snowstorm

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February 20, 2013    Late last week Chad Hays, who works for me, asked for the next Wednesday off (today) to go see a golf tournament in Tu...

When A Texas Ranger Is Portrayed By A Non Ranger

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February 20, 2013   Wrestling with a Texas Ranger cover we are working on for May. The problem we face is we have run group shots on the pa...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Topock Is Ready for Its Closeup

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February 19, 2013 After finishing "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac, I decided I needed to read all of the road classics. I'm cur...
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Bob Boze Bell's work has appeared in Arizona Highways, Playboy, National Lampoon, the Arizona Republic and True West magazine. For ten years (2002-20012) he did a video version of True West Moments which ran on the Westerns Channel. BBB can currently be seen on the series "Gunslingers" which runs on the American Heroes Channel. Triple B is also the President and executive editor of True West magazine, positions he has held since 1999. He has written a dozen books on Old West characters like Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Wild Bill Hickok and a three-part series (so far) on Classic Gunfights which appear in True West. These popular, heavily illustrated books have sold over 90,000 copies, so far. In 2014 he published a visual memoir of growing up on Route 66 called "The 66 Kid," and he is currently working on a bio of Geronimo. As for retirement, BBB says, "Work is only work if you'd rather be someplace else. And I'm exactly where I want to be."
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