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June 2009 Blog Posts (77)
A New Apache Kid book
I received a new book on the Apache Kid yesterday from Bob Pugh's Trails To Yesterday Books in Tucson (if you want to order your own, call Bob at (520) 293-1260). Read a bit last night. The name of the book is Renegade of Renegades: Court-martial of Apache Kid. by Clare V. McKanna, Jr. who teaches history at San Diego State University.
McKanna uses Apache Kid exclusively, as opposed to THE Apache Kid, as in, "Though his trials would not end in… Continue
Added by Bob Boze Bell on June 30, 2009 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment
The Scatterer
It's no secret: I can be scattered. Kathy mentioned to me the other day, like most women, she is a "gatherer," to which I responded, "Yes, and I'm a scatterer."
She has been ribbing me about this ever since.
Anyway, the Mickey Free project has been starting, stalling, starting, peedering out and proceeding, then stopping for bug bite medical issues (both mine and the Top Secret Writer, who was almost fatally bitten, last Fourth of July, in… Continue
Added by Bob Boze Bell on June 30, 2009 at 3:25pm — No Comments
June 26, 1876 -- Gen. George Armstrong Custer gave up his Presidential hopes
Custer had gone east to actually lobby for better treatment for plains Indians, and had been removed from his command as his reward. But, when gold was discovered in the Black Hills, and prospectors flooded into land promised to the Indians "as long as the grass grows", the Indian "problem" worsened, and Custer was reinstated to his command.
In June of 1876, Custer took about 600 men with him and I believe it was Gen Terry went another route, with… Continue
Added by Quickdraw on June 29, 2009 at 11:32pm — No Comments
Wasted Away Again In Patinaville
As promised, here is a sampling of the patina based washes I worked on this weekend, starting with a steep trail in the Sierra Madres (literally "mother mountains"). Need to add a single file of riders, probably Rurales, or bandidos (led by one Doroteo Villa):
This is a set piece for the General Crook foray into Mexico: a thousand men and hundreds of pack mules climbing up the narrow trails:…
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Added by Bob Boze Bell on June 29, 2009 at 3:37pm — 3 Comments
JOE BOWMAN, the "Straight Shooter", Another Good Cowboy Goes West...Adios Friend!
Please take off your Hat and remember the "Straight… Continue
Added by Dr Buck Montgomery on June 29, 2009 at 12:41pm — No Comments
Bugs Goes Undercover As Carp
Last week, in Vegas, Charlie Waters, alias Bugs, went undercover wearing a True West ball cap and a Doc Holliday "I'm your huckleberry" T-shirt.
Here's the full report:
The World Series of Poker
Worked all weekend on sketches, starting with a prickly pear study:…
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Added by Bob Boze Bell on June 29, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments
Twelve Hundred Pound Children
Added by Christopher Zimmerman on June 28, 2009 at 10:00pm — 4 Comments
Louis L'Amour's Mojave Crossing is an Enduring Western Classic
Classic Western Style
For starters, Mojave Crossing is written in a typical, classic western style. The… Continue
Added by Becky Coffield on June 28, 2009 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment
Billy the Kid And Clyde Barrow
Evap cooler is not working. May have to switch to AC. Actually, we made it past most of June so that is a big deal. Going into The Beast in about a half hour to see a movie and then get healthy groceries at Sprouts. Kind of inspired to clean up my act even more (too many heart attack stories).
Wrote up a query letter for the 10,000 Bad Drawings of BBB book. I'm thinking of sending it out when I hit 9,500 sketches. Then really hit it hard for the last 500… Continue
Added by Bob Boze Bell on June 27, 2009 at 3:00pm — 4 Comments
Charging Through Another Dimension
Added by Christopher Zimmerman on June 26, 2009 at 5:07pm — No Comments
Eight Page Mickey, An Eye For An Eye & Virgiline Griddle Cakes
Really a scorcher today. Did get a couple rain drops last night (in Arizona a six inch rain, is one drop every six inches).
Went home for lunch and turned on the chicken misters and watched the rooster, Cocky, stretch out in the sauna with a babe under each wing. He appeared to be sipping on a spaghetti noodle cocktail but I couldn't quite see under the umbrella.
Worked on ten sketches, then got the call from Carole that the legendary Gus Walker,… Continue
Added by Bob Boze Bell on June 26, 2009 at 3:30pm — 5 Comments
Gus Walker was in the house!
Added by Abby Goodrich on June 26, 2009 at 2:52pm — No Comments
The Mapinator is in the house!
Added by Robert Ray on June 26, 2009 at 2:47pm — No Comments
Dark Nights & Eddie Haskall
Working on a series of nocturne studies in my sketchbook:
Check out the small boy on horseback in the second panel. He's riding through the desert on a tall horse. The Apache Kid is running in the other panels towards. . .Beauty, of course (last panel). These are sketches 9,216-9,220.
Several people have asked me how long Charlie Waters and I have been friends and are there any photos of the two of… Continue
Added by Bob Boze Bell on June 26, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments
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Heart Warming Trials And Defibrillation
I finally heard a different tune this morning, on my visit to the heart doctor (the usual tune I have heard is chocked full of haranguing and hectoring). In fact, I was praised by the doctor and the nurses, with smiles, even. The doctor marveled at my cholesterol levels: Lipid panel: cholesterol (114); triglyceride (62); HDL cholesterol (44); percent HDL (39); LDL Cholesterol, Calc. (60). My blood pressure is very good (100/60). When the assistant M.S.N. asked… Continue
Added by Bob Boze Bell on June 25, 2009 at 3:00pm — 3 Comments
Bobby Bridger, Joe Small and Johnny Cash
It was the joke that launched a thousand banjo jokes, so to speak, as Bobby Bridger, Mike Blakely, Jeff Posey and Spur winner Jon Chandler chimed in with their own. "I had no idea that the banjo was the whipping boy of musicians!" said a laughing Candy Moulton,… Continue
Added by Meghan Saar on June 25, 2009 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment
Color Me Procrastinated
Going to see the heart doctor this morning. Feel good about that, but I read a quote the other day that kind of pointed out one of my main weaknesses:
"In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; a grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak."
—James Russell Lowell
I realized that I have trouble starting and I have trouble finishing, but I am a master of all things in between. Ha. Speaking of which here's sketches 9,190 to 9,200 and… Continue
Added by Bob Boze Bell on June 25, 2009 at 9:41am — 2 Comments
Bull Storms
Went down to a healthcare place in Scottsdale at ten to get a yellow fever shot. This is in case we have to build a canal in Cave Creek. Actually, it's for our trip in September to Buenos Aires and beyond.
A longtime Hollywood wrangler, Johnny Watkins, came by the offices today. He saw a True West magazine down at Bart's Indian Village, took it home, read it, and realized our offices were just down the street. Johnny and I had a grand talk. He was the horse… Continue
Added by Bob Boze Bell on June 24, 2009 at 4:53pm — 2 Comments
"Dual: The Lone Drifter" Premieres This Weekend
Got this from Terry Jo Neff down in Cochise County:
On Saturday, June 27 the Cochise College – Benson Center will be transformed for the official screening of DUAL: The Lone Drifter, which filmed at Old Tucson Studios’ western set in Mescal.
The Benson / San Pedro Valley Chamber of Commerce is a proud sponsor of this unique event, given that movie-making in Cochise County provides a strong economic benefit to Benson area… Continue
Added by Bob Boze Bell on June 24, 2009 at 8:54am — No Comments
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