Richard Lapidus
author of
Snakey Joe Post, Guardian Of The
Treasure
As
a life-long western history and reptile aficionado,
Richard Lapidus has managed over the years to earn publishing credits
in both
fields. His article
titled
"Diamondback Fever and Other Diversions," which appeared in the
Arizona Republic (April 13, 1975), instantly gained him favor with some
of the
Cochise County locals in that state.
Another of his essays, "Reptiles in Tombstone," was
published
in the August 1998 issue of True West magazine.
In 1994, he contributed a piece about Pima
County Sheriff Charles A. Shibell to Michael M. Hickey's book, The
Cowboy
Conspiracy to Convict the Earps. But
it
was his much-talked-about series titled The Youngest Earp-Strange
Events
Surrounding the Death of Warren Earp, which appeared in the Summer 1995
and
Fall-Winter 1995 editions of The Journal of the Western Outlaw-Lawman
History
Association (WOLA), that gained him the most respect within the
cowboy/outlaw
studies community. Mr.
Lapidus wrote the
"Introduction and Political Overview" to Michael M. Hickey's massive
The Death of Warren Baxter Earp, A Closer Look (Talei Publishers, Inc.,
2000),
and he conducted and edited the grueling interview with the author,
which appears
at the end of the same book. His
article
"Tombstone in the 1930s" appeared in the December 2001 edition of
Western Territory Magazine. For
the past
eight years Richard has served as master of ceremonies for an annual
western
book exposition held in Willcox-Tombstone-Tucson, Arizona. His first book, a memoir
titled Snake Hunting
on the Devil's Highway was released in 2006.
Richard is a member of the
Western Writers
of America.
He
lives in Simi Valley, California with his
wife of 41 years.
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