The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild
Lively. ... These pages read more like a movie script than a history book ... At times I felt like I was reading a Russian novel as so many characters crisscrossed and double-crossed: one day a villain, the next a victim. But it’s also satisfying to watch Burrough explode the legends of the late frontier the way Butch Cassidy dynamited safes ... Burrough scrapes off more than a century of dust and dried blood to give us a work that is part history, part biography, part sociology. In his hands, printing the facts makes for one hell of a good read.
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Lively ... A worthy subject for his engrossing history, which will prove a valuable companion while you’re watching any installment of what is perhaps one of our greatest indigenous art forms.
Captivating ... A fascinating work of history that challenges readers to reconsider the role of the West’s legendary gunfighters in shaping the identity of the United States.
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