Big Jim and the Cowboy Bar

MEETEETSE – “I probably shouldn’t be sitting with my back to the door,” Jim Blake said with a sly grin as he looked over his shoulder before submitting to an hour-long interview. “That’s how Hickok went out, but I’ve been shot twice, stabbed three times, and lost my eye to a shovel attack. I reckon whatever happens, happens.”

Of all the Wyoming characters to walk through the doors of Meeteetse’s C...