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True West Magazine The latest biography of Daniel Boone, plus new bios of Doc Holliday and Buffalo Bill, and histories of the Chiricahuas and California good-time girls.  Bob Drury and Tom Clavin make an excellent writing team and have found success in recent years with their creative collaboration, including their best seller The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend (2013). Most recently they have tackled together the American Revolution with Valley...

U-Haul via Facebook The pandemic hit the rental-car industry hard last year, and many companies sold off excess vehicles. Now, with vaccines available and travelers returning to places like Hawaii, rental-car lots are pretty empty, which means surprisingly high prices. A Toyota Camry cost $700 a day on Maui last month, and even now, it’s difficult to find any rental car for under $200 a day in Honolulu. The solution, some travelers have discovered, is U-Haul, which will rent you a pickup tru...

COVID-19 by the numbers New Mexico health officials yesterday reported 647 new COVID-19 cases reported over a three-day period (the weekend and Monday), bringing the statewide total so far to 193,987. The health department has designated 175,380 of those cases as recovered. Bernalillo County had 227 cases over the reporting period, followed by Doña Ana County with 83 and San Juan County with 75. Santa Fe County had 17 new cases and has now had 9,924 cases all together, 9,358 of which have be...

Price guides in Australia are quickly becoming obsolete. (Nathan Stirk, Getty Images) Some Sydney and Melbourne houses have been selling for more than a million dollars above the reserve price as auctions continue to attract crowds. With property prices on the rise and sales moving quickly, the trend of sales coming in well above reserve appears to have become a more common one. According to Louis Christopher, founder of SQM Research, it is being driven by pent-up demand as well as instances ...

Mark McInnes among Melbourne elite to miss out on $22m Portsea sale Share Developer David Deague and retail boss Mark McInnes were two bidders who left empty-handed from the auction of a Portsea clifftop house on Saturday after it took just minutes for the property declared on the market at $16.5 million to sell for a whopping $22.2 million. Damien Honan, the executive chairman of broker Honan Insurance, which in May sold a stake to US private equity firm TA Associates, walked away with the 1-3...

In the mesmerizing “The Kaiser’s Web” (Minotaur, 452 pages, $28.99), the tried and true Steve Berry exceeds even himself in crafting his most ambitious and relevant thriller to date. A no-holds-barred, high-stakes romp with echoes of class spy novelists like John le Carré, Len Deighton, and Alistair MacLean. Berry’s Hitchcockian “McGuffin” this time out is a Soviet spy dossier dating back to World War II that has the potential to upend the balance of power in Europe and, thus, the...

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Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images Boxing is starting to pick up the pace again, and with that, everyone in the game is getting busier, Eddie Hearn no exception. After boxing was shut down again in the United Kingdom for January, Matchroom will get their first 2021 show out on Saturday, Feb. 13, with Josh Warrington headlining against Mauricio Lara on Sky Sports and DAZN. He’s also got other cards already scheduled, and hopes to do one show per week all over the world in 2021. Scott Fitzg...

Thrillers: Boston stars in Lisa Gardners latest By Jon Land “Before She Disappeared” (Dutton, 336 pages, $27) is former Rhode Island resident Lisa Gardner’s first stand-alone thriller in years, and, boy, does it stand out as a masterpiece of post-modern noir in the vein of the great Dennis Lehane. Gardner is also at home in Lehane’s backyard of the working-class Boston neighborhoods, Mattapan in this case. The book introduces us to Frankie Elkin, a woman with more than her share of ske...

WBA names David Morrell “world” champion, orders him to face John Ryder Share this story Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images David Morrell’s super middleweight title may not be particularly legit, but his next challenge certainly will be. The WBA today elevated the 23-year-old Cuban from “interim” to “world” champion, a largely meaningless distinction that nonetheless comes with orders to fight John Ryder. As always, the pair have 30 days to negotiate. Morrell (4-0, 3 KO) made his...