> I count the Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award as
equivalent
> to a Spur. In fact, the actual award for Best
First
> Novel is now a regular Spur trophy, rather than
a
> stylized Indian medicine pipe as in years
past.
I didn't know that. But I haven't been to a WWA convention
for several years and don't even belong to the organization
anymore.
> > One of Cooke's other historical novels,
THE
> > COMMITTEE OF VIGILANCE, is about
> > San Francisco's Barbary Coast and might
be
> > hardboiled enough to interest
> > some readers here.
>
> Another one of Cooke's novels that might interest
RA
> members is SOUTH OF THE BORDER. It purports to be
an
> unpublished manuscript by real-life frontier
private
> eye turned writer Charlie Siringo, and tells the
story
> of how Siringo, now retired and living in
Hollywood
> just after WW1, is hired to work as a
> screenwriter/security agent during the
location
> shooting of a Western movie in Mexico. Along the
way
> he crosses paths with revolutionary Pancho Villa
and
> the long-thought-dead train robber, Butch Cassidy
(a
> guy Siringo almost caught in real life).
>
> JIM DOHERTY
I don't have SOUTH OF THE BORDER. Sounds like I need to find
a copy, though.
James
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