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May 21, 2013

With the dedication of the new fence around the graveyard where Wyatt Earp's second wife is buried, we have been getting quite a few calls from interested subscribers who want to find the cemetery, just outside Superior, Arizona. We decided to have The Mapinator draw up a good map for you all to utilize (when you're driving out there blind it ain't fun). So, without further ado, here's Gus Walker's map with directions:

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May 20, 2013

Spent the morning out at Pioneer Living History Museum taping a talking head deal for a new series the Military Channel is producing on Gunfighters of the Wild West.

This morning I whipped out a cowboy pickup cruising down a desert highway at night, with an Indian motorcycle bearing down:

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May 19, 2013

   I've been studying old pickups driving down the road with a makeshift horse hauler rack on the back for a scene in The 66 Kid. Found some good reference in a certain old movie. It was filmed in Sedona, starring Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda. Can you name it?…

Here's the link to my June 2013 True West article, "Guarding Custer's Guidon http://www.truewestmagazine.com/jcontent/history/history/history-features/5545-guarding-custers-guidon

If it didn't come from the battlefield where do you think it came from?

May 19, 2013

    Doing a True West history talk this Sunday (19th) at the little white school house in Peeples Valley (southwest of Prescott). Starts a 1 p.m. $15 at the door. Sponsored by the Peeples Valley-Yarnell Historical Society.…

May 17, 2013

I found out last week I have ADD and OCD. Everything has to be perfect, just not for very long. Now it turns out I evidently have another affliction, as it relates to yesterday's blog post:

"You mean Gina Lolabrigida, don't you?"

 —CJW

Yes, of course, it's Gina Lolabrigida, not Lola Ginabrigida, the Italian actress from the 1950s with the big talents. Dang! Now it looks like I have Lexias-Dick: rather than…

May 16, 2013

When I do my six drawings in the morning I just let it fly and whatever comes into my mind while I'm noodling, I put down on the page. First, I was noodling a fifties bullet bra babe and that made me think of Lola Ginabrigida, then I thought of Lola Montez and that led me to Zona Montez (and suprisingly not to Chris Montez, the singer of the fifties classic "Let's Dance"):

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May 15, 2013

I was looking for an image and ran across a slew of mug shots I have completed over the years, way more than I realized.

And more mug shots:

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May 14, 2013

Still on the march to read about and see every road picture I can get my hands on. Actually watched "Harry & Tonto" where a 55-year-old Art Carney plays 75. Had its moments, but not my cup of tea.

Watched Two-Lane Blacktop a while back and enjoyed them being on the actual road (as opposed to filming in the San Fernando Valley and faking everything). Here are James Taylor (the Driver) and Dennis Wilson (the Mechanic) actually driving up through…

May 13, 2013

   After a speech in Phoenix on Friday, I met up with radio legend Jeanne Sedello at her new home below Camelback and 49th Street. Had some wine sitting in her new kitchen while an electrician worked around us and we solved some life and revisited some crazy radio times together on KSLX and Young Buck. Jeanner, as we call her, is still cut (defined muscles) and was the model for a cartoon character I created called La Gata.…

May 13, 2013

As you probably know, we have a rough time on the newsstands of America because we are a small player in a very large corporate world. Big magazine publishers, like Hearst, with over a hundred titles, can command shelf space and push out little guys. That's why it's so important to us to have such faithful readers like Nicholas Narog.

"After several months of complaining- the Barnes and Noble in the Mall of America now carries a certain…

Happy Mother's Day to all Mothers, Grandmothers, Mothers-in-Waiting, and those who have served as Mentors over the years.

At last, the second season of Longmire starts Monday, May 27, 10e-9c.

May 10, 2013

Our art director, Dan The Man Harshberger, came up with this new T-shirt design based on our recent cover:

What do you think? Would you buy…

May 10, 2013

Had a pretty cowgirl come visit me two days ago.

Nancy Sheppard is a longtime rodeo roper and performer. (this is a publicity photo of her back in the day) She is doing a rodeo cook book and asked me for my grandmother Guessie's pinto bean recipe. Nancy brought…

May 9, 2013

We had a very contentious Design Review meeting yesterday. Lots of loud talking and swearing on my part. Got a headache, even. Got into it over the effectiveness of our house ads. I come from the institutional-ad school of marketing (Got Milk?) and Ken Amorosano comes from the ask-for-the-order school of marketing (Buy Now! Operators Are Standing By! Call This Toll Free Number!). This leads to ads that start out like this:

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May 9, 2013

We had a meeting yesterday about doing some new T-Shirt designs. Robert Ray came up with this one:

Would you buy it?

"Get to fighting, or get away."

—Wyatt…

May 8, 2013

Been working on getting some of my recent Doc Hollidays up on the new bobbozebell.net website. Here are some of the new arrivals:

"Doc's Last Gunfight"

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May 8, 2013

   Been studying old photos of Route 66. Thanks to the NAU archives and Sean Evans.

I was struck by how in the old photos there was so much oil in the driveways of the gas stations and on the…