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“A hell of a good reading.” -the new York Times
“One of the most important books written on American West over the years.” -Tu West Magazine
The New York Times Bestseling The Big Rich and Forge The Alamo comes an epic reconsideration, which gave birth to America’s most famous gunfighters from Jesse James and Billy The Kid to Butch and Sunandans.
“Wild West” Gunfighter is a stock figure in our popular culture that rejects it as a corn myth, a product of dime novels and B films compared to an important American history. In fact, as Brian Baroz shows us in his dazzling and fast-paced new book, there is a lot below the surface. For the end of the 1800s, for three decades, a major self -changes of the American West were a crucible, with the most murder rate per person in American history. Boil for a word because of this: Texas.
Texas was born in violence, on two fronts, south of Mexico and with comch in the north. Colt Revolver first caught with Texas Rangers. The Southern Duality War Culture turned into some forest and was held less in the loan star state. The collapse of Confedersi and the presence of a thin veneer of northern officers increased the heat further. And after the war, the explosion in the cattle business took that violence and dropped it out of Texas all over the west. Longahorn brought stampede with them, which was a classification of Jastars, Hussers, Gambler, and Freelance Lamen, who took a trigger-Happy Honor Culture to a wide gyre, a true blood meridian. When the first newspapers and the audience found what a good copy of all this is, the flywheel of Mithamking started moving. It was never stopped.
Gunfiers brilliantly distanced the lies from the truth, giving both elements because of them. And the truth is sufficiently wild to any but the most surefire taste. All mythological figures are here, and their migration is described with great nature – good, bad and ugly. Like all the great stories, this one ends – such as the railroads and the settling good closure for the good, the last, the booch casid and the sundays kids, actually get on a boat to South America, which ends its era in an explosion of glory. Burrough weaves these history in some darker and more stimulating than the sum of its parts. To understand the truth of Wild West, an important dimension of the American story is to understand.
Publisher: Penguin Press
Publication date: June 3, 2025
language English
Print Length: 448 pages
ISBN -10: 1984878905
ISBN -13: 978-1984878908
Items Weight: 1.6 pounds
Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.5 x 9.6 inch
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