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It’s early March, and I’m on the phone with William Albert Allard. He’s reading me what he once wrote about Arizona rancher Henry Gray, whom Allard had met while traveling across Arizona: “We sat in his kitchen, and from a butane refrigerator he poured glasses of ice-cold well water. Henry said he was 72 years old and had come to Arizona from Pecos, Texas, in 1919. On the kitchen wall were pictures of Richard Nixon as a senator and Barry Goldwater in his younger days.” 

Eagle Archives, June 19, 1962: The Berkshire Five Watters, club of about 50, is a sort of gigantic sewing circle — but they do most of their gossiping by remote

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I started carrying a 1911 Colt .45 auto in uniform in the early ‘70s, in a time and place where it was uncommon. I heard other cops mutter, “He’s a maverick! He’s a radical!” By 1990, I was lecturing for the Washington State Law Enforcement Instructors Association, and a young police trainer in the front row spotted the Middlebrooks Custom Colt Government .45 on my hip and said in a stage whisper, “Look! An old 1911! Hasn’t this dinosaur ever heard of Glocks?”