Lincoln Ellsworth, aboard the Wyatt Earp, responds to questions about whether the weather conditions are changing, says it’s too soon to tell, but that he can demonstrate the receding of the ice cap over three years. OK, now I’m ready to move on to a new temporary expertise.

I’m temporarily an expert on Lincoln Ellsworth’s Antarctica Expeditions; his ship, the WYATT EARP, was in the news continuously during the period of Ellsworth’s expeditions, 1933-39. So aside from the constant mentions of Wyatt Earp, whose wife Josephine Earp is the subject of my next book, my eye was caught by an unexpected mention …

  From today’s Telegraph, by Damian Reece: Ben “The Gun That Won The West” Bernanke certainly fired a series of warning shots from Jackson Hole on Friday at the Democratic and Republican natives of Congress, who he warned, in no uncertain terms, to get their house in order. I …

The news that Harrison Ford would be playing Wyatt Earp inspired me to learn more about the hoary Cowboys and G-Men connection.  It goes wayyyyy back! Check out this Dixie Cup lid with Jackie Coogan.   And we think we invented product placement…..  

It’s Cochise County all the time lately! I hope I can do my part and finish this darned book. Check out today’s VARIETY: Harrison Ford is attached to portray Wyatt Earp in a feature adaptation of “Black Hats: A Novel of Wyatt Earp and Al Capone.” Project’s produced by Thunder Road topper Basil Iwanyk and [...]