Dale Evans & Killin Jim Miller

Dressed in my Dale Evans costume, complete with a fringed shirt, riding pants, and white cowboy boot, I’m ready to start the work day. I’m traveling to Lake Wildwood in a few hours to do a book signing and give a lecture about the cowboy film duo of Rogers and Evans. Clint Black has been working hard to attract interest from production companies to back the film project about the couple’s life. Hope this studio green lights the movie. His efforts are much appreciated and I’m looking forward to meeting with the studio heads. The book Outlaw Tales of California is doing well. I’ve been asked to update the tome and add a few more outlaws to the mix. Crime was rampant in the Old West so finding additional bad guys to write about won’t be hard to do. I’d like to finally have the book I wrote about the outlaws in my own sphere of influence released, but timing is everything. Now isn’t the time, but soon. And speaking of outlaws, on this day in 1896, Killin Jim Miller ended his feud with Sheriff Bud Frazer by blowing off most of Frazer’s head with a shotgun in Toyah, Texas. Frazer’s sister roundly cursed him for it and he threatened to shoot her too. His tough talk didn’t stop her from making him pay for what he did to her brother. Now that’s a women worth admiring. Still settling into my new place. Hope to locate the box with my undergarments in them today. I can’t keep wearing the bottoms to bathing suits. More on the new books to come in the Women of the Old West series in the next post.