Wild West

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What was the wildest, wickedest, toughest, meanest, baddest, deadliest), gunfightingest town on the Western frontier? While an intriguing question, there’s no easy answer, and any answer one gives is likely to be regarded as “all wrong.” Many 19th-ce

Wild West

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Texas author Jerry Lobdill (left) has earned the Wild West History Association’s Six-Shooter Award for best general Western article for “How Jim Miller Killed Pat Garrett,” which ran in the August 2018 issue of Wild West. Connecting the dots between

Wild West

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The Wild West History Association (WWHA) has awarded Colorado author Linda Wommack (left) its Six-Shooter Award for best general Western history article for “Confidentially Told in Brown’s Park,” published in the June 2019 Wild West. The article make

Writing Magazine

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Publishing commercial fiction, London based Joffe Books invites submissions from writers around the world and encourages, ‘authors of colour, LGTB+ authors and differently abled authors from diverse backgrounds to make their voices heard’. The ‘favou

Computeractive

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Writers have called on Amazon to change its policy that allows customers to read a Kindle ebook and then claim a refund for it within 14 days (see screenshot). A petition has been launched on Change.org (www.snipca.com/41542) urging Amazon to “protec

Writing Magazine

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The winner of the Gollancz and Rivers of London BAME SFF Award is The Principles of Moments, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson (pictured left), with The Reeves’ Guild, Kyla Jardine, in second. The award was launched last year by Gollancz and Ben Aaronovitch in p

Harper's Bazaar India

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Be prepared to laugh-outloud as you follow four geriatrics in an old age home who are determined to investigate a murder. Hilarious and warm, this bestseller will leave you in a good mood. [Penguin] A half-British, half-Indian sorcerer attends a magi

Writing Magazine

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The winner of Joffe Books Prize for Crime Writers of Colour will be offered a two-book contract with Joffe Books. In conjunction with bestselling author Dorothy Koomson and literary agent Susan Yearwood, Joffe Books is looking for manuscripts from un

Coast

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Finding ingenious uses for recovered ocean-waste plastic, Odyssey Innovation has launched recycled surfing handplanes, each of which contains the equivalent of 129 bottle tops alongside upcycled neoprene. Designed by and for ecoconscious surfers, the

Wild West

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Highly regarded California historian and author William Boyd Secrest, 89, a lifelong resident of Fresno who specialized in writing about the outlaws, lawmen and Indians of his home state, died on May 8, 2019. Born on March 14, 1930, Secrest served wi

Wild West

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Born in 1860 in Haddonfield, N.J., rancher and performer William Tatem Collings was variously billed as Uncle Will, the Professor and Buckskin Charley. In the 1880s he started a 1,400-acre ranch outside Beaver City, Neb., and by 1890 was shipping hor

Cowboys & Indians

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90TH ANNIVERSARY NAVAJO COUNTY FAIR & RODEO The theme of this year’s Navajo County Fair & Rodeo is “celebrating 90 years of memories.” Although the first Navajo County Fair was held in 1926 in Taylor, Arizona, it moved to its current home in Holbrook

Wild West

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WildWestMag.com “The trail, already cold, led Carson and the other scouts to many a dead end,” writes Paul Andrew Hutton, distinguished professor of history at the University of New Mexico. “[Jicarilla Apache captive] Ann White was their great ally.

The Team Roping Journal

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Q: What stands out 41 years later when you think back on that historic rookie year heading for Leo Camarillo as the new kid on the block? A: Winning the world championship. Bottom line, my goal was to rope with Leo and win the world championship my

Wild West

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1 Statues: Fort Worth has put up statues to cowboy humorist Will Rogers, bulldogging inventor Bill Pickett and Comanche Chief Quanah Parker. Dallas put up a statue to Robert E. Lee and has since taken it down. 2 Billy Bob’s Texas: Billing itself as t

Getaway

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‘I’ve been surfing for…’ she mentally counts backwards... ‘six years’. She’s now a surf coach and, between university and her fellow Muizenberg peers, has surfing friends on tap. Once Sindi gamely took her surfboard through the Namib Desert on a road

Writing Magazine

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The Baen Memorial Short Story Award for short stories up to 8,000 words on the near future of manned space exploration offers publication online at industry pro rates. Entry is free. The closing date is 1 February. Website: www.baen.com/contestjbmssa

The Team Roping Journal

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The COVID-19 crisis shut down most of the United States the same week Guthrie, Oklahoma’s Lazy E Arena hosted its 36th annual Cinch Timed Event Championship, paying all-around hand Taylor Santos $100,000 and change—the last big check paid out before

Wild West

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WildWestMag.com They Shoot Cowboys, Don’t They? This article, published in the October 2020 issue of Wild West, examines the Cowboys (with a capital “C”), a loosely organized band of desperadoes who raided in the Southwest on both sides of the Mexica

The Team Roping Journal

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Dear Roper, In late April, all of us in the team roping industry were holding our breaths. We’d seen the Practice Pen Qualifiers take off during quarantine. Things were opening back up and ropings were on the schedule, but we knew people were hurtin

Cowboys & Indians

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Judge Roy Bean, Marshal Wyatt Earp, and other lawmen have long been part of Western lore. The Cowboy Lawyers Association follows their legacy’s trail today, as this horse-loving group of California judges and attorneys saddles up half a dozen times a

The Team Roping Journal

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Organizers of the Wrangler Bob Feist Invitational Week announced that the $700,000 Wrangler BFI, held for 35 years in Reno, will partner in March 2021 with the other titan of the roping industry—the $200,000 Cinch Timed Event Championships—as they co

Wild West

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Robert M. Utley [robertutley.net], a former chief historian for the National Park Service, has been recording the history of the American frontier—particularly its military history—for decades, and he shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. He h

Zigzag

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Name: Jordan Talbot. Nickname: Jordy or Jords. Local spot: Llandudno. Occupation: Junior illustrator. Favourite board: 5’8” Ferral pistol whip. Signature move: Weightless speedy high line. West Coast or East Coast & why: Weskus. I feel so exposed up

The Team Roping Journal

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Before winning California Rodeo Salinas this July, Brooks Dahozy, 32, proudly sported his 2017 Sisters (Oregon) 77th Rodeo buckle. “It’s a cool rodeo. It’s up there in the mountains, close to my house. It’s almost like a hometown rodeo for me. They g

Wild West

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The long-term exhibit “Palace Seen and Unseen,” which relates the 400-year history of Santa Fe’s Palace of the Governors, opens April 19 at the New Mexico History Museum. The museum’s Santa Fe campus includes the Palace of the Governors, the Fray Ang

The Team Roping Journal

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Team roping for a living during a pandemic is uncharted territory. And because it’s unprecedented, there’s been no playbook. But it’s proven to be tough stuff—more travel and expense with a lot less opportunity to win big money. Starting with RodeoHo

The Team Roping Journal

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First round at RFD-TV’s The American in Arlington, Texas. 4.01 seconds Won the round and the Top Four worth $100,000; $50,000 of it going towards his PRCA Pro Rodeo Earnings. When I first walked in there I thought, ‘Oh man! This could be a catastrop

The Team Roping Journal

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The most dominant professional ropers of today were at one time the kids marveling at their heroes who paved the previous path. Now, they’ve taken the torch and are proud to lead the next generation. But who do they admire, and who set the standard f

The Team Roping Journal

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Cody Snow and Paul Eaves got the win at this year’s new tournament-style National Western Stock Show in Denver, besting Clay Tryan and Jake Long in a tie-breaker to win $3,919 a man. The National Western Stock Show & Rodeo changed its format, so rope