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Janice how many times are you gonna post the same pictures over and over again?

 I'm tired of em and you taking over BBB's web site. It was nice when you were gone!

Added by Flying R on March 5, 2012 at 8:09am — 1 Comment

Arizona Highways August 1991 A Very Special Issue

My wife went to a Goodwill store in Scottsdale yesterday looking for knitting books and look what she brought me home. This issue has an article and original cover art by some guy named Bob Boze Bell that claims he's crazy about everything Billy. It was a fine article and I learned some things about the Kid I did not know. Thanks Bad Bob!…

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Added by Flying R on January 29, 2010 at 8:30am — 7 Comments

Mundo appering At Walmart in his loincloth

My wife received an e-mail from Mundo today. And anybody that's interested, he will be appearing in his loincloth Saturday morning at 5:30 at the Walmart at 83rd ave and Union Hills road Phoenix Arizona, shopping. I'm taking my wife...R

Added by Flying R on December 6, 2009 at 8:00pm — 5 Comments

Curly Bill

Much of “Curly Bill’s” past is sketchy because of the poor record keeping of the times and his intentional use of alias names in an attempt to hide his former criminal past and stay relatively unknown in the territories so that he could be free to rustle cattle and continue his criminal endeavors. It’s believed he was born in Texas around 1840 and turned up in Arizona approximately in 1878 where he met the local criminal element, including the “Clanton” family and helped them expand their… Continue

Added by Flying R on December 1, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

American Patriot John Wayne

FOLKS: All my life I've felt privileged to have had good friends around me, privileged to have been able to do the kind of work I know and love the best, and to have been born in a country whose immense beauty and grandeur are matched only by the greatness of her people.



For a number of years I have tried to express a deep and profound love for these things; to be able to say what I feel in my heart. And, now, in this album, I've had the chance to do so. I know most of you feel the… Continue

Added by Flying R on November 30, 2009 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

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