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PaulCoolBooks.com Redesigned!

Posted by Paul Cool on May 23, 2012 in News | Comments Off on PaulCoolBooks.com Redesigned!

Welcome to my new website. Here you’ll find all the news about my writings, past, current, and planned. I may not blog the recommended 3x a week (or is it 3x a day?), but I will from time to time take you on side trips flowing from my research into the FBI’s investigation into the 1934 kidnapping of June Robles, my thoughts about the craft of writing and the business of publishing history, and anything else I want to draw your attention to. And the first thing on that list is my thanks to Jerry and Michelle Dorris of AuthorSupport.com for creating this...

19th Bombardment Group

Posted by Paul Cool on May 23, 2010 in Articles | Comments Off on 19th Bombardment Group

This page includes photos taken by or given to Captain Paul E. Cool, 19th BG, in 1942, in Java and Australia. There are no captions, so most other persons in the photos are unidentified. Contact Paul Cool if you have any knowledge of photograph subjects. paul@paulcoolbooks.com Contact Paul Cool, member of the 19th Bombardment Association, at paul@paulcoolbooks.com Major Paul E. Cool, USAAF Pilot in the 28th Bombardment Squadron, 19th Bombardment Group during 1942, and CO of 30th Bombardment Squadron of the 19th BG at Rattlesnake air base, Pyote, Texas in 1943 Flyers below are unidentified except 2nd photo below (in pajamas) is SM Sgt. Jean Arthur Byers. Byers is also in 3d photo, below, on...

Curly Bill

Posted by Paul Cool on Jan 23, 2010 in Articles | Comments Off on Curly Bill

I thank Chris Penn of England for providing me with the Graphic Illustrated article . The best published sources for information on Curly Bill Brocius are: Steve Gatto, Curly Bill (2003) and Casey Tefertiller, Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend (1997) I welcome comments. Contact me at paul@paulcoolbooks.com “It’s Just a Flesh Wound”: The Gunfights of Tombstone’s Black Knight Tombstone diarist George Parsons once described him as “our most famous outlaw at present,” and with good reason. Curly (or Curley) Bill Brocius (if that was his true surname) earned a notorious reputation among his contemporaries for his riotous behavior north of the Arizona-Sonora line and his bloody cattle raids south of the border. But as the story of Tombstone and Cochise County was transformed into mythology by fiction, hagiographical biography, and Hollywood films orbiting around the central character of lawman...