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True West Magazine
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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.
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Emiliano Zapata
Who’s Who Letters from the Archives
When people would write in and say they knew or saw so-and-so, it captivated me. It made
True West even truer, or at least produced evidence of it being true. It was kind of surreal. It would be interesting for the magazine to do a “flashback” and look at some of those old letters.
Keep up the good work. John Volz
Lagrange, Kentucky
You are right. When I was growing up, those letters really intrigued me. Here (at right) is a taste of a great one about a man who knew Joe Lefors, the man who arrested Tom Horn, from the February 1964 issue. BBB