Add to ORKGMillions of pages have been written about Western outlaws and peace officers. Next to Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the most biographed men in America\u27s history have been Western figures: Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickock and many more. The majority of these accounts border on fiction and make romantic heroes of those gunmen. In the 1880\u27s and 1890\u27s thousands of serialized dime novels, describing the gunfighters of Dodge City, Abilene, Tombstone and Denver, were sold in the East. The readers could take vicarious pleasure in the adventures of the West. These books have continued to sell in great numbers even to this day. I remember reading such novels, borrowed from my father...
The story of the five Marlow brothers and their tribulations in late nineteenth-century Texas is the...
William Preston “Bill” Longley (1851-1878), though born into a strong Christian family, turned bad d...
"This colorful collection of biographies of famous Texas gunmen supplies the reader with plenty of t...
Bad Company and Burnt Powder is a collection of twelve stories of when things turned "Western" in th...
On a chilly October afternoon in 1881, two brothers named Tom and Frank McLaury were gunned down on ...
Article contrasts the romanticized Hollywood image of the outlaw popular in Western films and fictio...
The Western is surely one of the most enduring and characteristically American genres. Its exponents...
215 pagesOn the border between Beadle & Adam’s dime novel and Edwin Porter’s ground-breaking film, T...
Convict Cowboys is the first book on the nation’s first prison rodeo, which ran from 1931 to 1986. A...
To date, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the nature of historic commemoration in the Ame...
The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a c...
"Illustrations and extracts ... taken from Western wilds": p. [2-3].The book by Beadle was published...
Ira Aten (1862-1953) was the epitome of a frontier lawman. At age twenty he enrolled in Company D du...
"Frontier Law deals with the pioneer days of Idaho, of which State the author was once Governor. In ...
The Old West\u27s most famous gunbattle lasted all of about thirty seconds, but it left three men de...
The story of the five Marlow brothers and their tribulations in late nineteenth-century Texas is the...
William Preston “Bill” Longley (1851-1878), though born into a strong Christian family, turned bad d...
"This colorful collection of biographies of famous Texas gunmen supplies the reader with plenty of t...
Bad Company and Burnt Powder is a collection of twelve stories of when things turned "Western" in th...
On a chilly October afternoon in 1881, two brothers named Tom and Frank McLaury were gunned down on ...
Article contrasts the romanticized Hollywood image of the outlaw popular in Western films and fictio...
The Western is surely one of the most enduring and characteristically American genres. Its exponents...
215 pagesOn the border between Beadle & Adam’s dime novel and Edwin Porter’s ground-breaking film, T...
Convict Cowboys is the first book on the nation’s first prison rodeo, which ran from 1931 to 1986. A...
To date, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the nature of historic commemoration in the Ame...
The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a c...
"Illustrations and extracts ... taken from Western wilds": p. [2-3].The book by Beadle was published...
Ira Aten (1862-1953) was the epitome of a frontier lawman. At age twenty he enrolled in Company D du...
"Frontier Law deals with the pioneer days of Idaho, of which State the author was once Governor. In ...
The Old West\u27s most famous gunbattle lasted all of about thirty seconds, but it left three men de...
The story of the five Marlow brothers and their tribulations in late nineteenth-century Texas is the...
William Preston “Bill” Longley (1851-1878), though born into a strong Christian family, turned bad d...
"This colorful collection of biographies of famous Texas gunmen supplies the reader with plenty of t...