Cowards & Jesse James

I’m off again today to do another lecture series and signing.  The hardest part of this job is hauling the boxes of books around.  It was on this day in 1892, after back shooting Jesse James, Bob Ford became a saloon keeper in Creede, Colorado.  Ford was shotgunned by Ed Kelly ins a dispute over a missing diamond ring.  The shotgun blast drove a collar button through Ford’s throat.  Ford deserved nothing less for his cowardice act.  More information about Ford’s demise and the shot that killed Jesse James can be found in the book Tales Behind the Tombstones.  It’s one of my favorite titles in the Go West series of books that I’ve been fortunate enough to write.  I’m looking forward to working on a pictorial about Dodge City’s Front Street.  Any opportunity to return to Kansas is a plus.  The Roy Rogers/Dale Evans book The Cowboy and the Senorita might be adopted as a musical for Broadway.  I’ll have more news about that and the book I’m writing about my brother on Thursday.  Time to load up the truck now and be on my way.