Friday, May 08, 2015

Lady Luck Turns Her Back On Pancho

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May 8, 2015    I've been reading about Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution ( The Life & Times of Pancho Villa by Friedrich Katz...
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Thursday, May 07, 2015

The Many Wives of Pancho Villa

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May 7, 2015    Still amazed at the number of "wives" Pancho Villa married in his long career as a revolutionary. Got up this mor...
Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Pancho Villa: Horndog Extraordinaire

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May 6, 2015      Born a peasant, orphaned at 15, an outlaw by 16, Doroteo Arnago, AKA Pancho Villa rose from the lowest rungs of the social...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Weird Al and Chief of Dreams

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May 5, 2015    Woke up today and worked on a couple studies. Here's a board that has been lying around my studio for a couple years, at...
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Monday, May 04, 2015

Rain, Rain, Don't Go Away!

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April 4, 2015    Woke up to rain this morning. When it gets soggy out, I get inspired. Did a couple studies about this:   Daily Whip O...
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Sunday, May 03, 2015

Powerhouse Book Signing Then Powered Home

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May 3, 2015    Left the house yesterday at eight in the morning and drove to Wikiup for breakfast. Then on in to Kingman for a book signing...
Friday, May 01, 2015

Fun Run to Fun Room

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May 1, 2015    Going to Kingman tomorrow for the annual Fun Run. Signing books at the Powerhouse Museum from 1 to 3 p.m.   Also, Cra...
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The Killer Scout vs. Beaver's Breath

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May 1, 2015    Went home for lunch today and waited for the fumigator and did two Whip Outs, starting with this bad boy,   Daily Whip...
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Mysteries Behind The O.K. Corral

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May 1, 2015    How did a botched, misdemeanor arrest go from a footnote to one of the THE seminal moments in Old West history? That is a ...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015

A Shamelessly Partisan Media

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April 30, 2015    In case you think there is nothing new to say about the O.K. Corral fight, author Mary Doria Russell sets the scene for h...

Wyatt Earp's Last Boomtown

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April 30, 2015    Shifting gears to flesh out the talk I gave at last weekend's Arizona History Conference: Wyatt Earp In Hollywood: Th...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Blog Is Down, Blog Is Up

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April 28, 2015    A rough patch for the blog. Been crazy busy, both on the road (traveled down to Tucson last weekend for the Arizona Histo...
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Thursday, April 23, 2015

The Great Tom Russell

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April 23, 2015    Recently, a history person came into my office and told me that among his friends, I am known as "the guy who ruined...
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Did They Have Rifle Straps In The 1870s?

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April 23, 2015    Did my morning whip out exercise by grabbing an old photograph of four mountain men. Looks like the photo was taken in th...
Monday, April 20, 2015

And The Winning Cover Is. . .

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April 20, 2015    Dan The Man Harshberger did a ridiculous number of cover concepts for the June issue (30 by his own account). We narrowe...

Mothers Against Mohawks And Other Blasts From The Past

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April 20, 2015    Drove a couple hundred miles this weekend to sell 50 books. Was it worth it? Hell yes! Got to drive out to lovely Apache...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Kid Kareem & Cover Consensus

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April 17, 2015    Grabbed a half-finished sky board out of my pending pile and whipped out a little study of the Kid before I came into wor...
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Thursday, April 16, 2015

The Big Billy Cover Debate

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April 16, 2015    We have been debating all week on the right cover for our big Billy the Kid package in the next issue (June). We are torn...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

'7 Winchester Art Palette

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April 14, 2015    Still wrestling with the Billy cover. We may gravitate to the sculpture of Billy that Bronzesmith created last summer. ...