How the wild West was won : a : celebration of cowboys, gunfighters, buffalo soldiers, sodbusters, moonshiners, and the American frontier / Bruce Wexler.
Publisher:
Skyhorse Publishing,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
512 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm.
Native Americans in the West -- Cavalry regiments of the Indian wars -- Buffalo soldiers -- The taming of Texas -- The wagon train -- Boomers, sooners, and moonshiners -- Sodbusters -- Western towns -- Pony Express riders -- The transcontinental railway -- Wells Fargo -- Introduction to the gunfighters -- Robert Clay Allison, 'The shootist' -- Billy the Kid -- Black Bart -- Butch Cassidy -- The Dalton Gang -- The Dodge City Peace Commission -- The Doolin-Dalton Gang -- Wyatt Earp -- Robert Ford -- Patrick 'Pat' Garrett -- John Wesley Hardin -- Wild Bill Hickok -- Doc Holliday -- Jesse James -- Bat Masterson -- Texas Jack Omohundro -- Commodore Perry Owens -- William Clarke Quantrill -- Belle Starr -- Bill Tilghman -- Dave Tutt -- Gunfighter filmography -- Introduction to the cowboys -- The history of the cowboy -- The cattle towns of the West -- The great cattle trails -- Charles Goodnight -- The end of the trails -- The end of the open range -- Cowboy kit -- Cowboy working conditions -- Cowbow [sic] lingo -- Ethnicity of the cowboy -- Cowboy code and culture -- The wild West shows -- The rodeo -- Cowboys in the movies -- Cowboys on the small screen.
Summary:
Through its portrayal in movies, literature, television, fashion, and art, the West has become a familiar concept. Wexler sheds light on this much-romanticized period of history by acknowledging its gritty realities and providing an answer as to why, even now, such an allure persists in surrounding it.
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