True West Magazine
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs.
Double-Take on Bass Reeves and the Lone Ranger
The cover of your February/March2021 issue, showing Bass Reeves masked as the Lone Ranger is simply brilliant. Rex Rideout (Conifer, Colorado)
Well, I’m glad you did not offer me a vote on this month’s cover (February/March 2021). It’s the first cover of
TW in all I have seen that I really don’t care for. It makes Bass Reeves into a cartoon Larry Floyd (Chesapeake, Virginia)
Your February/March 2021 cover is the best-designed, and most relevant to the inside stories, I’ve seen in the years I’ve been reading the magazine. It is perfect: provocative and perplexing, perfectly setting up the reader for the Bass Reeves materials, which are themselves outstanding.