At the start of my friendship with Tyler I’d get these notes, typewritten with lines of XXXXXXXXX through the mistakes. Ah, those were the days.

Now…I get handwritten notes in the mail and it takes me no less than a couple hours to decipher each one. I keep old examples of “cracked code” in a folder as reference material. Once, I even tried sticking one of Tyler’s postcards under the wiper blade of my Ranchero…figuring if I stood back from it ten or fifteen feet, maybe the letters would come into focus. Nope, no such luck.

Don’t hold your breath for an e-mail address (Tyler may never get one)…but don’t miss the “Grand Opening” of www.tylerbeard.com. You can get first edition and signed copies of his cowboy boot books available nowhere else.