A shootout Saturday at Cottonwood Grove pitted cowboy against cowboy and husband against wife and tourists vying for fastest draw in the West - or at least at Tanque Verde Ranch Resort, 14301 E.

Their usual establishment was closed because of the heat, so that left the gang standing out in the open on brown, dead grass smack in front of the white-hot broiler we've been calling sunshine lately ...

Note: For additional photos, see the Aug. 14, 2025, print edition of the LVN. The Fastest Gun Alive: World Championship of Cowboy Fast Draw competed its 23rd year of competition in late July as ...

With his right hand on his six-shot revolver, Everett Chodos, aka “Speedy James,” lined up next to a gunslinger probably three times his age in familiar cowboy attire with a straw cowboy hat and boots ...