Appaloosa Radio is pleased to introduce Nell Trustmon and her collection of Broken Tree Tales
Nell Trustmon was a prolific, Western author who journeyed over 300,000 bumpy miles during the early 1950s to gather stories about the forgotten ghost towns of the Old West. She published many of her stories in her own magazine, the Broken Tree Tales.
She pushed her red 1947 Mercury (which she named Old Bess) through washed out gullies, up sandhills, and along long-neglected wagon trails. Her only companion in her travels was her collie dog “Prospector.” Nell camped under the stars when the weather permitted or slept in Old Bess when it rained or snowed. She recorded her stories wherever she happened to be on her dependable portable Royal typewriter.
Appaloosa Radio has been granted exclusive rights to Nell Trustmon’s Broken Tree Tales.
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The old and very rough pencil sketch is getting hard to make out. It shows a woman’s body lying on a wooden floor. Her pantaloons have been pulled down and she has an arm raised, probably to fend off her attacker. She lies in a pool of her own blood. From the old pencil sketch, you would not know that it is a drawing of Miss Julia Bulette, early Nevada’s most famous and beloved “soiled dove.”
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Some music was taken from the CD “A Large Fury Man with a Wee Cap” performed by Big Gerry and the Pockets O’ Gold. Privately published at Mammoth Lakes, California © 1998.
