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Breakin’ All The Rules

LETTERS

FROM OUTLAW TO SAINT • Segue from a wild Saturday night to an elegantly tasteful Sunday morning while retaining a signature color and style.

PERSONAL BEST • Talented designers invite you to tour extra-special rooms and hobby spaces that are a winning combination of their clients’ passions and pride of place.

HOT SEATS • A pair of Adobe Interiors’ newest chairs promise to stand and deliver in any living space.

THE BUSLIFE KITCHEN • A culinary outlaw life trundling through the West in a retrofitted bus makes sitting down to a meal together that much more rewarding.

Oaxacan Chocolate Mousse

THE C&I MOVIE & TV AWARDS • It’s time again to vote for the best of the big and small screens—take a look at this year’s nominees and be ready to vote online.

STAY & PLAY • Want to feel more connected to the West on your next trip? Here are some unique places to hang your hat that help you do just that.

MAN OF HIS WORD • With his Oki Language Project, Blackfoot actor Eugene Brave Rock is helping preserve Indigenous cultures.

JEREMY BOOTH

JO MORA

ALLAN HOUSER & HARRY JACKSON

ART CALENDAR

WELCOME TO THE OUTLAW-VERSE • Where The Only Rule Is That You Never Follow The Rules

ONE TOUGH BULL • J.B. Mauney’s legendary riding career has seen him evolve from singular badass to inspiring team-builder.

THE BADDEST BULLS IN THE WEST • All of the executives, experts, and industry insiders you can find will agree on at least one thing: today’s bucking bulls are leagues ahead of yesterday’s stock. Even so, the history of bull riding is riddled with rank specimens. Here are five of the greatest.

Cash On Screen: AN OUTLAW DREAM • Johnny Cash’s interest in the black sheep of society extended beyond his outreach to the prisoners at Folsom—he channeled a variety of big bads on screens large and small.

The Modern Musical Outlaws • Since the first generation of country music’s outlaws led by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, the sound and the style defined by those artists have gone from sub-genre to cultural movement—one that’s trucking along a half-century later. To celebrate 50 years of going against the grain, we’ve gathered up a few of our favorite modern outlaws. Hear their tunes in a special playlist by searching “Modern Outlaws” at cowboysindians.com.

THE BAD GUYS WIN • Some of the greatest western performances belonged to the “big bads” or “black hats” of the genre—the villains who send a chill down the spine of any lily-livered viewer. Read about a few of our favorites.

BANDIT HEAVEN • WE LOVE OUR WHITE-HAT HEROES, BUT SOME OF THE BEST OLD WEST OUTLAW STORIES REVOLVE AROUND THE BAD GUYS THEY WERE PITTED AGAINST.

BUTCH CASSIDY’S WYOMING ARREST • DESPITE HIS LONG AND BRAZEN CRIMINAL CAREER, BUTCH CASSIDY WENT TO PRISON ONLY ONCE. THIS EXCERPT, “CASSIDY CONVICTED,” FROM CHAPTER 10 OF TOM CLAVIN’S NEW BOOK, BANDIT HEAVEN, IS THE STORY OF HIS ARREST IN 1894.

WESTERN CRIME AND PUNISHMENT • No surprise that the human drama of a frontier hanging became favorite fodder for westerns.

HANGED BY THE NECK UNTIL YOU ARE DEAD • Hanging was a fact of life on the frontier, but there’s some fiction in the case of law versus rough justice.

THE REAL “HANGING JUDGE” ISAAC PARKER • Who was this “Hanging Judge,” and where did he preside? Hint: His...