STRANGE WEST MAGAZINE #1

Strange West Magazine

by John LeMay, John Stamey, Donna Birchell

STRANGE WEST is the debut magazine devoted to the weirdest of the Wild West! This digest-sized zine is a throwback to the days of tall tales and far-out frontier lore. In this issue we ponder if Ambrose Bierce, the author famous for “The Devil’s Dictionary”, disappeared into the depths of Devil’s Cave in Ojinaga during the Mexican Revolution in 1914. Or did he a suffer a more mundane fate being buried in Marfa, Texas, that same year? Similarly, accepted history tells us that Albert J. Fountain disappeared into New Mexico’s White Sands in 1896 because he was murdered by Oliver Lee. However, other sources attest that Fountain may have been just another victim in the Curse of the Lost Padre La Rue Mine of the Organ Mountains!

In addition to those tales, this issue also history of Queho, the mummy who rode in Las Vegas’s Helldorado Days parade.An unabridged FWP interview with a man who claimed to have seen Jack the Ripper tend bar in Benson, Arizona.New corroborating accounts in the saga of the infamous Tombstone Thunderbird of 1890.The discovery of giant sloth bones by Albert Fountain Jr. whilst searching for his father’s lost gold in the Organ Mountains.An interview with Donna Blake Birchell on her book Haunted Hotels and Ghostly Getaways of New Mexico.“The Problem in Entering a Cave” an exciting speculative short story on Ambrose Bierce’s ultimate fate by Sacrycast host, Dr. John Stamey.

106 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 12, 2022