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Confessions of the Outlaw

Coffeyville, Kansas 1892 Trains brought people from nearby towns, who sliced keepsakes from his dead brothers’ clothes where they lay; clipped hair from the manes and tails of their fallen horses and cut the strings off their saddles. In the street, he was nearly picked over for souvenirs himself before he was carried upstairs, whereContinue reading “Confessions of the Outlaw”

George Plimpton Broke My Arm

Introduction: What’s a Havlicek? I was not yet much of a sports fan, except for watching the jumps and spills of Evel Knievel, when my family moved from Long Island to a cranberry bog town outside Boston in 1970. Almost everyone there was crazy for Bruins hockey, especially for the chestnut-haired idol of that bareheadedContinue reading “George Plimpton Broke My Arm”