Wyatt Earp's Guns -- I know where they are......

Glenn G. Boyer told me many years ago, cloistered in the book-filled basement of this then residence in southern Arizona near Tombstone. My friend Glenn and I had become very close in those years, he tutored me in writing skills, and I spent many weekend overnights in his basement spare room, reading volumes of his collected works, doodling on his computers and venturing out over Wyatt Earp Country.
     He passed away just about a year and a half ago, so revealing his secret about Wyatt Earp Guns, kinda, doesn't seem altogether unfaithful on my part. I know where they are.
     Glenn told me that over the years, many, many attempts were made by charletons to " disclose" there whereabouts or discovery by false claims, all of which were false. One such, he said, was a man from Australia who called and made a bid on a "Wyatt Gun" (emphasis mine) which he never even saw, of over $5 grand, site unseen.
     He always had to prove  to me, how close he was to the Earp family.
     As a bomber pilot in World War II, he and his crew flew in the Pacific on some hairy missions. When he got back his passion had been to track down and write about the " Earp Boys from Tombstone." That's a big club he joined, me, too.
     After the war, Boyer bought a giant reel-to-reel tape recorder and searched out all the Earp descendants he could find and spent his Air Force retirement hot roding around the country interviewing them about the Earp family, and the boys from Tombstone. The results were a ton of his books in that basement I was sleeping in during the weekends. And I wasn't the only one, Glenn was generous with his time and talent with a lot of younger writers.  
     On day, to prove a point, or maybe out of frustration, or maybe one of his books weren't selling well, I'm not sure - he just popped. We were down in his cellar/den he picked up the tape recorder and played one of phone recent phone calls he made to a relative of Josephine Marcus Earp's. Remember, Josie was Wyatt's wife, Jewish, and a member of a very rich clothier family from San Francisco.
     The phone call was with a woman, " Oh, hi Glenn, the woman said. " Very familiar with Glenn, the call went on for 30 minutes about family matters, then Glenn broaches Wyatt Earp, " did you see this recent nonsense about Wyatt's guns in the national press?"
     " Oh yes, " she says, " why do they do that. We know that's a lie, Wyatt's guns are up here in the......" and Glenn cuts off the tape so I don't hear the exact location in San Francisco.
     I KNOW where they are, Glenn intones in that deep vibrato of his. And he never told me where. I can guess, I can make an approximation but when it comes down to it.
     I don't know. Glenn died about two years ago and all his " stuff " s now scattered to the winds. All the history is gone. What a sad tale.
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On My Mind --- July 2014

There are so many things going wrong in this country, it's hard to know where to begin. If you asked me ten years ago could I ever imagine affairs of America being this bad ever, I would have thought you were writing a poor novel. Yet, here we are.

• The IRS is both spying and lying about it, and doing a lousy job at both. Your kid is stealing cookies, you catch him, and say where are they. He denies it, you can't find it, yet, there is chocolate all over his hands. Lying. On the other hands, he is charged with taxing every one, all the time, no questions asked, and we KNOW HE CHEATS. "Nope, wrong on all counts," he says. "Didn't do it." 
• The NSA ARE spies and they are spying on US. By law, that's forbidden, but when has a law stopped anybody from breaking it? "NOPE, not us." Facts prove otherwise, the top guys before Congress lie through their teeth. More later.
• Our chief enemy Russia is beefing up it's Air Force, our President, is emasculating ours. He has removed all tank from Europe - all of them. He has fired all Army Generals that have disagreed with him and replaced them with Reddi Whip officers. 
• Open Borders on the southern end of America are now a reality, and we now know what it feels like to "let them in." And it feels like a swamp of diseased kids, women and gangs from Central America, MS13. I am reminded of the Mariel Boat lift from Cuba where Castro emptied his prisons put them on boats, sent them here and within months, they were in our prisons - the most violent criminals ever. Looks like this is going to be round #2.
• Meanwhile, our president seeks the cover of darkness through all this, hits Air Force One and Fund Raise Chicken Dinners, anything, really, other than running the country. 
• On the positive side, hand gun and long rifle sales are at an old time high in America, despite the Obama Administration's attempts at curbing it. At last count, there are more firearms in America than there are Americans.
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