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    (More) Lost Women of the West: Queen Anne Bassett

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    This is the final poem that I wrote to remember the “lost women of the west” whose stories often get forgotten alongside male notables like Jesse James, Wyatt Earp, and others. I have been aiming to celebrate the women, but not necessarily the lifestyles they led. Some robbed and hurt others, just like some of […]
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    The Last Pony Ride of the Internet Kid (for now)

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    I am nearing the end of this two-month run of making comics for The Wild West Adventures of the Internet Kid. This has been an ancillary project for the Course with No Course — a Western-themed offshoot of DS106. It has been a ton of fun to make these comics, but I don’t know how […]
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    (More) Women of the West: Belle Starr (Bandit Queen)

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    This is another in my series of small poems honoring some of the forgotten women of the Wild West. You can see poems about Stagecoach Annie, Etta Place and Cathay Williams, too. The poems are my attempt to capture the voice and story of these women. This one is about Belle Starr, known as the Bandit […]
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    (More) Lost Women of the West: Cathay Williams

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    This is my third poetic “discovery” from the historical archives of a famous woman of the “Wild West.” I have been writing a digital poem for each, trying to capture their voice and their story, with the writing superimposed on an image of the woman (I can’t 100 percent vouch for the historical accuracy of […]
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    A Wild Story from the Wild West, All Folded Up

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    I brought the idea of a Folded Story to my Western106 folks, hoping to create a 25-fold story (one piece at a time, as exquisite corpse) with a Western theme. I had a good handful of folks participate, so I was happy to be collaborating. Here is what we ended up with. Strange, yes? But centered […]
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    (More) Lost Women of the West: Etta Place

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    I’m just exploring some famous women of the West who may have been lost to the history books (written by us white men). I’m using some biographical material to write poems, layering the poems on an image (as best as I can verify), and hoping to expand the narrative of the Wild West. The other […]
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    Lost Women of the West: Stagecoach Mary

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    My editor at Middleweb, John, saw some of my tweets about #Western106, so he sent me a collection of Western magazines (how cool is that?) and an interesting book by Stephanie Bearce entitled Top Secret Files: The Wild West. It’s a non-fiction book for middle school readers that has some cool information in it and some […]
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    The Narrative Arc of a Tall Tale

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    We’re still hoping to do a Tall Tale radio project for some of us stragglers on the open range of #Western106 but, as Alan Levine noted, since we are A Course with No Course, there’s no time rush on it. Still, I was listening to a Tall Tale the other day, and thinking of the […]
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    The Scratches and Scribbles that become a Song

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    The other day, I shared out the song that I wrote and recorded as part of inquiry with #Western106 open storytelling adventure. I thought it might be interesting to share out my notebook page, showing the scribbles as the song took shape. I can read it. Can you? (I did a little filtering in Flickr, […]
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    Rhetoric and Sports: The NFL and the Language of the Wild West

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    The Carolina Panther’s star quarterback Cam Newton is called a “gunslinger.” The meeting between Patriots (Tom Brady) and Broncos (Peyton Manning) was a “showdown” or predicated to be a “shoot-out” (it wasn’t) between the two great athletes. Manning says his visit to the Superbowl might be his “last rodeo.” Reading the sports page these days […]

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