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True West Magazine Jim Hoy’s highly personal biography of the Kansas Flint Hills, two new biographies of Butch Cassidy, Bill Neal’s autobiography and Deborah Swenson’s debut Western novel. From my earliest years, I remember my parents sharing with me their love of the American West and their app-reciation and knowledge of the West’s writers, artists, educators and filmmakers. I discovered quickly that I could travel great distances from North Hollywood, California, across the West through the pages of Western writers whose personal experiences and imaginations allowed me to saddle up ...

True West Magazine Doc Holliday vs Mike Gordon Hoodoo Brown’s court invents “excusable homicide” Gambler draws a “pair of sixes” and is “froze out.” By Bob Boze Bell Based on the research of Gary L. Roberts Doc Holliday was serious about his Las Vegas business ventures. He was building an annex to his saloon, which some believe was for a dental office. A shootout with a drunk would derail everything. – Illustrations by Bob Boze Bell –   July 19, 1879 Mike Gordon has been on a multi-day binge-drunk when he comes into the Holliday Saloon on Centre Street, Las Vegas, New Mexi...

On our radar Landmark Syria torture verdict A German court this week convicted a former member of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s security apparatus of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity, the first verdict in a case rights groups hope will pave the way for more trials related to the country’s 10-year war. Eyad al-Gharib was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for his role in arresting people who were later tortured. German prosecutors used the principle of “universal jurisdiction” to try al-Gharib and co-defendant Anwar Raslan. Countries that recognise universal j...

As the coronavirus pandemic exploded worldwide last April, global organizations banded...

On Thursday, Anthony Fauci informed the World Health Organization that the Biden administration will participate in WHO’s vaccine-sharing project. That revers