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The Gunfighters: How Texas Made The West Wild
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Named A Best Book Of 2025 By BloombergOne Hell Of A Good Read. The New York TimesOne Of The Most Important Books Written On The American West In Many Years. True West Magazinefrom 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 AmericaS Most Legendary Gunfighters, From Jesse James And Billy The Kid To Butch And Sundancethe Wild West Gunfighter Is Such A Stock Figure In Our Popular Culture That Some Dismiss It All As A Corny Myth, More A Product Of Dime Novels And B Movies Than A Genuinely Important American History. In Fact, As Bryan Burrough Shows Us In His Dazzling And FastPaced New Book, ThereS Much More Below The Surface. For Three Decades At The End Of The 1800S, A Big Swath Of The American West Was A Crucible Of Change, With The Highest Murder Rate Per Capita In American History. The Reasons Behind This Boil Down To One Word: Texas.Texas Was Born In Violence, On Two Fronts, With Mexico To The South And The Comanche To The North. The Colt Revolver First Caught On With The Texas Rangers. Southern Dueling Culture Transformed Into Something Wilder And Less Organized In The Lone Star State. The Collapse Of The Confederacy And The Presence Of A Thin Veneer Of Northern Occupiers Turned The Heat Up Further. And The Explosion In The Cattle Business After The War Took That Violence And Pumped It Out From Texas Across The Whole Of The West. The Stampede Of Longhorn Cattle Brought With It An Assortment Of Rustlers, Hustlers, Gamblers, And Freelance Lawmen Who Carried A TriggerHappy Honor Culture Into A Widening Gyre, A Veritable Blood Meridian. When The First Newspapermen And Audiences Discovered What Good Copy This All Was, The Flywheel Of Mythmaking Started Spinning. ItS Never Stopped.The Gunfighters Brilliantly Sifts The Lies From The Truth, Giving Both Elements Their Due. And The Truth Is Sufficiently Wild For Any But The Most Unhinged Tastes. All The Legendary Figures Are Here, And Their Escapades Are Told With Great FlairGood, Bad, And Ugly. Like All Great Stories, This One Has A Rousing EndAs The Railroads And The Settlers Close Off The Open Spaces For Good, The Last Of The Breed, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, Really Do Get On A Boat For South America, Ending Their Era In A Blaze Of Glory. Burrough Knits These Histories Together Into Something Much Deeper And More Provocative Than Simply The Sum Of Its Parts. To Understand The Truth Of The Wild West Is To Understand A Crucial Dimension Of The American Story.
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