We know all about the bandits and bad boys, the gunfighters and goons, but not the women who held it all together with grit and spit. The reality is plain: there never would have been a settled West without the women! Join local “True West” magazine editor and Arizona historian Bob Boze Bell as he shares some of the remarkable stories of the remarkable women of the West from his book “Hellraisers and Trailblazers – The Real Women of the Wild West”.
FORMAT: In-Person – classroom
INSTRUCTION METHOD: Lecture
AGES: Adults 18+
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About the Presenter: Bob Boze Bell has been a radio personality, a cartoonist, an author, a painter, and historian. His work has appeared in “Arizona Highways”, “Playboy”, “National Lampoon”, the “Arizona Republic” and “True West” magazine. For ten years (2002-20012) he did a video version of True West Moments which ran on the Westerns Channel. He can currently be seen on the series “Gunslingers” which runs on the American Heroes Channel. Bob is also executive editor of “True West” magazine, a position he has held since 1999. He has written a dozen books on Old West characters like Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Wild Bill Hickok and a three-part series (so far) on Classic Gunfights which appear in “True West”. These popular, heavily illustrated books have sold over 90,000 copies. In 2014 he published a visual memoir of growing up on Route 66 called “The 66 Kid,” and he is currently working on a bio of Geronimo. As for retirement, Bob says, “Work is only work if you’d rather be someplace else. And I’m exactly where I want to be.” He and his wife Kathy make their home in Cave Creek, along with the “True West” office.
