I love a good UFO story. After all, I live about an hour away from Roswell. What can I say, it’s a New Mexico
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I love a good UFO story. After all, I live about an hour away from Roswell. What can I say, it’s a New Mexico
Read MoreBeing hooked on trying to prove the historical viability of Arthur is as obsessive as playing with Wyatt Earp. They’re both the same person.
Read MoreFirst published October 29, 2013 How do we put Wyatt Earp into perspective? By now, you will have come to realize I love history.
Read MoreFirst published on July 15, 2013. “…The Bisbee Deportation was the illegal deportation of about 1,300 striking mine workers, their supporters, and citizen
Read MoreIt was about 2:15 PM on a very windy, very chilly Wednesday afternoon when four brave men began what we now call The Walk.
Read MoreIt was clearly a case of cops gone bad. Even during the inquest, the judge said that the town marshal had committed an ‘injudicious
Read MoreFirst published on July 12, 2010. …it really did exist! If the history of Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the OK Corral were
Read MoreFirst published on April 10, 2017. Ordinance No.9: “To Provide against Carrying of Deadly Weapons” (effective April 19, 1881). Section 1. “It is hereby
Read MoreThe Pink Flamingo first ran this article on January 3, 2011. NOTE: For those who don’t know The Pink Flamingo, in my real life
Read MoreI originally published this July 2, 2015. It is perhaps more important today than when I wrote it. I am now blending it in
Read MoreI saw an article on Friday about the most chivalrous men in history. A medievalist, and lover of anything Arthurian, I think anyone who
Read MoreAddress: E024 Alamo Canyon Road County: Lincoln City: Hondo State:New Mexico GPS: 33.353050, -105.298722 and 33.353109, -105.299084 PRICE DROP: Alamo Canyon Ranch needs to
Read MoreLife during the days of the writing of the Declaration of Independence was not sanitized. Half of the babies born during that time did
Read MoreSeveral years ago, I spent a lazy Saturday watching Andy, Barney, Opie, Aunt Bee, Goober, and Mayberry. You stop and think, wow, life was
Read MoreI don’t mind admitting I enjoy all the fun crypto thing on cable. I’ll also admit that, although I’m a healthy skeptic about most
Read MoreIn 1881, when John Slaughter was kicked out of Lincoln County, New Mexico, he made his way to the Arizona Territory, ending up in
Read MoreThe film was forwarded to me by the editor of the Tombstone Times. I was maybe 4 minutes into it and I was in
Read MoreBecause tomorrow is St. Crispan’s Day, I’m doing our Sunday morning opera on Saturday. Monday is the 26th. We all know what happened at
Read MoreLet’s face it, the time of year is a little appropriate for what is turning out to be a gunfight at the kuku corral.
Read MoreOn March 19, 1848 Wyatt Earp was born at his grandmother’s home in Monmouth, Illinois, at 406 S. 3rd Street. The convoluted, and often
Read MoreLate one evening, I was working on a novel, and going back and forth with some guy on Twitter, about conspiracy theories. It was
Read MoreUPDATE: I wrote this on Monday Part I of III: This is what a 6-year-old little girl looks like six months after witnessing the
Read MoreSeveral months ago, I did a series of articles about retired, and disgraced general Jerry Boykin’s homo-erotic ramblings about the manly Christ. Part I
Read MoreThis is (I promise) the last of the series on modesty, cowboys, and clothing. I was only planning one part to the piece on
Read MoreIt isn’t very often that I get to use my favorite things in a blog – the Wild West & Opera, but this time,
Read MoreAmericans have, for many decades considered themselves the middle class. During the dark days of the Great Depression, those who were middle class, barely
Read MoreDavid Brooks had a recent article about the decline of the male. It makes no sense at all. Rather than attempt to make something
Read MoreThe Pink Flamingo is doing something a little bit different here. I’m running today’s Wednesday’s Hero as my regular post. Here in New Mexico,
Read MoreI am a kindergarten drop-out. Lately, The Pink Flamingo has been getting question about who I am. You can find a bit of information
Read MoreThe Pink Flamingo owns a shotgun. Anyone where I live should have one. I wish my parents did, but with my father’s Alzheimer’s, no
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