Boots O’Neil’s First Day on the JA

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  • This painting and a copy of the book that it is in, “Some of them Dally and Some of Them Tie Hard and Fast”, will be in the Trappings of Texas September 16th and 17th.
    This painting and a copy of the book that it is in, “Some of them Dally and Some of Them Tie Hard and Fast”, will be in the Trappings of Texas September 16th and 17th.

    By Ed Ashurst The following story is a word for word record of a conversation I had with Boots O’Neal in early June of 2021. I recorded it and wrote it down word for word in the vernacular. I first heard of Boots O’Neal in the fall of 1972 when I first met and worked for Mike Landis who was running the wagon on the Diamond A Ranch at Seligman, Arizona. Mike told me the story about Boots coming to …