How the West Was Tamed
Stained Glass & Soiled Doves
I recently came across an excerpt from John Steinbeck’s East of Eden that I thought you’d find interesting.
“The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.”
Were the two institutions opposites, or were they parallel responses to the same ache? One has to wonder if the soiled doves had a similar refuge.
The Great Huckleberry Debate
Did Doc Holliday say, “I’m your huckleberry,” or did he say, “I’m your huckle bearer?”
People have been arguing about this ever since the release of Tombstone. But where exactly does the truth lie? And what did the real Doc Holliday say?
That’s what we tackled on the most recent edition of The Wild West Extravaganza. Click here to listen and let me know what ya think!
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Ever wonder what the Lincoln County War was like from a participant’s viewpoint? Well, you’re in luck, as I’ve been narrating George W. Coe’s Frontier Fighter on Patreon.
We’re up to chapter 18 so far, and we’ve covered everything from Coe’s early life, to his association with Clay Allison, and his actions during the Lincoln County War. Chapters 19 & 20 drop this Saturday, in which George describes the near-fatal shooting of Yginio Salazar and the fate of Susan McSween.