Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild until aesthetic theories give way

until aesthetic theories give way to pressing concerns raised by war and politics

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Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild until aesthetic theories give way"One of the most important books written on the American West in many years." True West Magazine From the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Rich and Forget the Alamo comes an epic reconsideration of the time and place that spawned America's most legendary gunfighters, from Jesse James and Billy the Kid to Butch and Sundance The "Wild West" gunfighter is such a stock figure in our popular culture that some dismiss it all as a corny myth,