The designer of Leonard’s hardback edition of Up In Honey’s Room didn’t have to do too much work after locating this image of Gloria Grahame in Nick Ray’s A Woman’s Secret (1949); even the Lugar is in keeping with a scene or two in the book …
Elmore Leonard and Will Rogers
… this federal lawman from Oklahoma who believed Will Rogers was the greatest American who ever lived because there wasn’t anyone as American as Will Rogers. He was funny and dead-on accurate when he took shots at the government, and he was always a cowboy. Carl said, “You could tell he was the real thing by the hundred-foot reata he carried around, could do tricks with, throwing his loop over whatever you pointed to and never had to untangle it. Jurgen was thinking that if he ever saw Carl Webster again, even if Carl had him handcuffed, he’d ask him how one became a cowboy.
Elmore Leonard, Up in Honey’s Room (2007)