tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36901762009-11-20T13:46:46.071-08:00Bob Boze Bell's Big Bad Book of Bad Diary EntriesIf you've ever wondered what it's like to run a magazine or how crazy my personal life is, be sure to read the behind-the-scenes peek at the daily trials and tribulations of running True West. Culled straight from my Franklin Daytimer, it contains actual journal entries, laid out raw and uncensored. Some of it is enlightening. Much of it is embarrassing, but all of it is painfully true.
Are you a True West Maniac? Get True West for LIFE...Click here!Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comBlogger2792125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-39320502472991336212009-11-20T11:31:00.001-08:002009-11-20T13:46:46.081-08:00November 20, 2009All of us who write books about Billy the Kid hope for the three Rs: that we will be respected, get rich from book sales and be fondly remembered for our efforts to get to the truth about Billy. Of course there have been over 1,000 books written about the Kid and as I like to brag, I didn't write all of them. Nope, not even half. I'm not exactly sure of the actual total, but Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-80557377221512220962009-11-20T08:46:00.001-08:002009-11-20T08:46:43.263-08:00November 20, 2009About a week ago I asked Carole Glenn to order a book for us on Amazon called Mega Hoax. I had heard through the Billy the Kid grapevine that a woman from Santa Fe named Gale Cooper has published an alleged expose on the digging up Billy project. We got the book on Wednesday and I saw it in my box when I got back from lunch. My managing editor Meghan Saar had already ear-marked Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-35918238222406705412009-11-19T15:24:00.001-08:002009-11-19T15:24:45.140-08:00November 19, 2009 Our office copies of The 2010 Source Book arrived this afternoon and it's a beautiful thing. If you want to find anything related to the West this is the issue you need to have (hint: subscribers get it free). Inside is our Eighth Annual Best of the West Awards and I predict the following people are going to be very happy: Jim Clark, Steve and Marcie Shaw, Jay Dusard, Pat Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-16849939964133932252009-11-19T10:15:00.000-08:002009-11-19T10:16:03.741-08:00November 19, 2009Saw my first Low Pants Lance. I was on my way to yoga last Tuesday when I saw this tall kid angling down the alley by the Career School next to Black Mountain Gym. As I drove by I looked in the rearview mirror and saw that the back of his pants hung below the cheeks of his arse! He then jumped a wall so I got a real good view of the entire buttocks area. Amazing. I had seen Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-31844038740395025192009-11-18T09:29:00.001-08:002009-11-18T09:29:51.911-08:00November 18, 2009 When we first moved to Cave Creek in 1986, I took my sketchbook down into the creek bottom and while reclining beneath a huge sagauro did a series of sketches that ended up contributing to this pen and ink illustration: The cave that Cave Creek is named for is in the embankment at left. Since these giants are in the creek bottom they are susceptible to more freezing and Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-6390435122421849572009-11-17T12:06:00.001-08:002009-11-17T12:06:47.292-08:00November 17, 2009We got some rain over the weekend, not much, but just enough to get that great desert smell. I just found out in a newsletter that Kathy gets called Bottom Line that "when the weather is dry, certain plants secrete an oil that is absorbed by rocks and soil. When it rains, the oil is released into the air as a gas, creating an aroma called petrichor."Not Bad WeatherAnother page Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-37760319056742288462009-11-16T15:08:00.001-08:002009-11-16T15:13:45.529-08:00November 16, 2009Ever sit around and wonder where all the ridiculous myths and legends come from? You know, the ones where you kind of shake your head and go, "That is the most ridiculous thing I have heard in my life. Who makes this crap up?"Well, here's a good example. For Halloween this year (in Cave Creek) at Cody's Smokehouse & Grill (which officially opens in December at the location of a Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-32841693733402125252009-11-16T11:51:00.000-08:002009-11-16T11:52:02.673-08:00November 16, 2009Just got more info on the remake of True Grit by the Coen Brothers. Steven Spielberg is producing along with Scott Rudin (who produced No Country For Old No Men). It looks like Matt Damon is going to play the Texas Ranger (Glenn Campbell in the original), Josh Brolin is being talked about as the bad guy Ned Pepper (Robert Duvall) and according to Variety, the Coens want Jeff Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-40875079762752055732009-11-13T12:54:00.001-08:002009-11-13T12:54:29.125-08:00November 13, 2009Charlie Waters has just completed editing a multi-part series on Valor as it applies to our servicemen and women at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 54-part series started Sunday and you can read the stories of heroism at Americanvalor.netCharlie adds, "We will add stories of the six Medal of Honor winners on Sunday, then start adding one new profile of a medal recipient each dayBob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-43805272419972885332009-11-13T10:25:00.001-08:002009-11-13T10:25:56.042-08:00November 13, 2009Rod Cook of Caldwell, Kansas is doing a new book on the area and its history. Rod really helped me out when I was doing a Caldwell Classic Gunfight on the fight there between cowboys and the locals. The marshal in Caldwell in 1884 was Henry Brown.Rod liked the first scratchboard I did of the hanging with the darkness and he wondered if I could combine that starkness with the Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-15424365096347402342009-11-12T15:32:00.001-08:002009-11-12T15:32:48.087-08:00November 12, 2009 My son Thomas Charles came out today to show off his cherry 1984 El Camino which he just bought from a Snowbird in Mesa: A car buff from Minnesota sold it to T. and it is very nice. Meanwhile, I took one more crack at the Medicine Lodge Hanging:That's the barn, at top, where the prisoners were being held. There is a famous photo of the four outlaws standing in front of theBob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-60021873245434137772009-11-12T08:44:00.001-08:002009-11-12T08:44:20.536-08:00November 12, 2009 Haven't been sleeping well. Woke up at 2:30 last night pondering conflicts. Having survived twin heart attacks a year-and-a-half ago, I keep saying to myself, "This can't be healthy." As I laid there listening to the quiet breathing of my wife and Peaches, my mind kept sinking to the morbid thought of an obituary that reads in part, "He had a warning, a second chance, but he Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-56501091841474873812009-11-11T15:58:00.001-08:002009-11-11T15:58:50.386-08:00November 11, 2009 A week from hell in the office. Lots of stress all around. Record territory issue, but it took its toll. Trying to repair damage and recover. Production manager out sick. Went home for lunch and took another couple cracks at the Medicine Lodge hanging where they hanged three guys with two ropes. Here's a new sketch:And a scratchboard attempt:Still not quite right, but I'm Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-10172474004559613932009-11-11T09:33:00.001-08:002009-11-11T09:33:06.054-08:00November 11, 2009Finally caught parts of the new True West Moments running on the Westerns Channel. "Rocks on Graves" is a tad thin (it's very short, maybe 15-20 seconds), but I caught the end of "The Water Trough" last night and it looked pretty cool. Can't wait to see the whole thing.Speaking of the Westerns Channel, I also caught "Miracle At Sage Creek" starring David Carradine and Wes Sudi. Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-53944404070331504722009-11-10T15:38:00.001-08:002009-11-10T15:54:36.868-08:00November 10, 2009There was an article in the newspaper the other day about a local cowboy who was put on a strict diet and told to walk 10,000 steps a day. It was for some health TV show and they put a pedometer on his leg and the TV doc would email him and say, "You are only at 8,000, go back outside and get to walking." The cowboy did and he's quite healthy today, etc.So, this got me to Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-64449961885932197662009-11-09T10:39:00.001-08:002009-11-09T10:39:23.192-08:00November 9, 2009 We contribute 25 copies of True West magazine to Give2thetroops.org where we hear they are devoured and fought over. Got this letter from the org today:"We cannot express to you how much the troops appreciate receiving packages and letters from our organization. We encourage you to read the letters from the troops posted on our web site. We continuously add new letters and Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-43504766548569115222009-11-06T09:14:00.000-08:002009-11-06T09:15:00.561-08:00November 6, 2009The kids came over last night with Bill Glenn and Grandma Betty for Tacos de Bell (or, as Deena calls them, "Tacos de Bobby"). Lots of laughs all around. By the way, when Deena and Tommy and I were on our recent Mexican Food road trip to southern Arizona and northern Sonora, I got to listen to a whole bunch of their music. Here's the ride we got thanks to Deena and her road Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-48849081573815792252009-11-05T11:10:00.001-08:002009-11-05T11:10:15.410-08:00November 5, 2009Last night when I was driving home from work I caught this spectacular sunset over The Seven Sisters:Then, this morning, as I walked out the driveway to pick up the newspaper, I caught this sunrise:True West Moment Question:"In the old west movies they always seem to show a single sheriff or marshal with maybe one deputy. Going up against maybe 4 or 5 gun toting folks in a saloon Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-71405934194902803132009-11-05T09:47:00.001-08:002009-11-05T09:47:16.950-08:00November 5, 2009 Got a call this morning from a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, who is doing an obit piece on Ted Yeatman, who passed away on November 1. After praising Yeatman's stellar research and skills regarding Jesse James, Fred Rasmussen, the reporter, asked me how I got along with Ted. That was a tough one. Ted was a challenge for my staff, to say the least. I tried to answer as Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-42363955835787517012009-11-04T16:20:00.001-08:002009-11-04T16:20:27.211-08:00November 4, 2009Met Kathy for lunch and then came home to work up sketches for a friend of mine who wants an illustration of the Medicine Lodge lynching where they hanged three guys with two ropes. This is the infamous bank robbery attempt by ex-Billy the Kid gang member Henry Brown (we think, some don't agree). He and his lanky deputy Ben Wheeler, along with two Texas cowboys, attempted to rob Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-30792978964961642242009-11-04T11:06:00.001-08:002009-11-04T11:06:44.595-08:00November 4, 2009A couple of loose items to catch up on. When I was in Tombstone for the Vendetta Ride, I gave a walking tour and afterwards I signed books outside the Crystal Palace. One of the riders presented me with a complimentary bottle of wine:That night, in Bisbee, we opened the wine and sat on the balcony of the El Dorado Hotel on O.K. Street. Our porch looked right down on Brewery Gulch Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-22669450347223627542009-11-04T09:37:00.000-08:002009-11-04T09:38:03.856-08:00November 4, 2009As we continue into 2007 on our 100 Covers march, we did another sepia cover on our good friend Jim Clark, aka, The Trainman:After a successful run of 11 sepia covers we decided to mix it up a bit and try something completely different:Royal Wade Kimes joined us for this photo shoot, which we shot on the top of the hill on School House Road, cattywampus from the town library. The Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-169211092142504332009-11-04T08:31:00.001-08:002009-11-04T08:31:09.535-08:00November 4, 2009 With yesterday's posting on the passing of Jesse James author Ted Yeatman, I got the following thank you email from Ted's cousin, Jean Yeatman:Thank you for posting about Ted on your blog. This response really helped me feel better: Dear Ms. Yeatman, On behalf of The James Preservation Trust, and the historical interests of the family of Frank & Jesse James, you have our Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-5649660952753451972009-11-03T12:51:00.000-08:002009-11-03T12:52:03.704-08:00November 3, 2009 While I was on one of my walks with Peaches last week I met one of my neighbors, Joe Yager, who is a tractor expert (he owns several). We set up a tractor date: that's when I go buy the gas, hose off the family John Deere, clean out the rat crap, drag an extension cord out to the Tractor shed, air up the tires and cool down two Miller Lites in the fridge. I always know when Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-76845542088799627152009-11-03T10:42:00.000-08:002009-11-03T10:43:01.361-08:00November 3, 2009I've been walking Peaches every day (sometimes twice a day) and noticing that I sometimes get really good ideas while I'm walking along. So, I have been coming back to the house, going inside and writing down, what I call, The Big Idea. For example, Sunday I was thinking about the John Ford classic "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence," and in the old story telling tradition of usingBob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.com