Vernon Dawson died this week, tragically youmg. He was a miner, a craftsman, a drinker, a gentleman, and a friend. Perhaps his problem was the one mentioned long ago by Jimmy Buffett in “A Pirate Looks at Forty” (Forty!): “My occupational hazard bein’ / My occupation’s just not around.” The days of the hard rock …
Timely old Tom Russell Song
The Gun Kids take a Road Trip
..To Cody. Nathaniel Fitch and Arthur Wilderson with Cody curator Ashley Hlebinsky. Arthur writes: “We took this picture in one of the basement vaults-within-a-vault at the Buffalo Bill Museum of the West in Cody, WY. Nathaniel managed to get us in with a few phone calls. The lady in front is Ashley Hlebinsky, the curator …
HI Line
Some images by Trent Kleppen of the bleakest, most beautiful landscape in the 48. And a song…
Instant reviews
With my inability to type getting to the point where I have to hire a stenographer to do my next two books, don’t expect blogging to be too regular or too long. Nevertheless, I still keep getting good books from my friends and friendly publishers and I must notice them. This is especially true when …
Neighbors
Trent Kleppen up on the Hi Line asked about my ranch neighbors, and in answering I realized we are still a wild bunch here, for whatever reason. It is no accident that songwriter Tom Russell lived here, in el Paso and Santa Fe, for years. I wanted to send some photos of my ranch friends …
Merry Christmas!
Apparently, according to Gerry Cox, a lot of our friends have been worried because our mailbox was “full” and messages were bouncing. After messing around with it a lot, it seems to be working normally, at least for now. But whatever the problems, be assured that we are well, despite the puppy’s eating the house*, …
A Mongolian Jingle Bells…
…complete with throat singing! From Chas Clifton…
Wolf hunt with Berkut
Absolutely the best movie of hunting with eagles in Olgii I have ever seen. This is exactly how it is.. And it is the first time that filmmakers have caught an actual successful hunt for a wolf with eagles. All the others are “bagged”, and I can’t watch them. This is also exactly where we …
Bobo
Yes, we have the new pup, and she is everything we wanted. Even ATAIKA likes her- perhaps she can smell familiar genes. (She is her great aunt). Of course she shreds everything, but she wouldn’t be a tazi if she didn’t… Thanks to Lane Batot, and especially to Philip Bailey and Kerry Cooper, who kept …