Western Gunslingers in Fact and on Film
Western Gunslingers in Fact and on Film

Author: Buck Rainey

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-11-17

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1476603286

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Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, Belle Starr, Wyatt Earp, the Younger Gang, the Dalton-Doolin Gang and Bat Masterson--these real-life lawmen and lawbreakers have been the basis of so many Hollywood Westerns that it has become difficult to discover where the truth ends and the legend begins. All actually became larger-than-life characters during their lifetimes, as contemporary newspapers and books embellished their deeds for their own purposes. But it was in Hollywood that the line between reality and myth was completely blurred. Each chapter-length entry here first focuses on the known facts of the people's lives and how each became truly legendary during their lifetimes. The reality is then compared to how they have been portrayed in the movies.

Photographers
Photographers

Author: Peter E. Palmquist

Publisher: Carl Mautz Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781887694186

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Tough Daisies
Tough Daisies

Author: Clarence Robert Haywood

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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By reputation, Kansas isn't the funniest place on earth. But it has its share of humor. In this book Robert Haywood reveals the lighter side of a state that's too often pegged a collection of sober-minded moralists struggling to find Utopia among the stars. He explores what has passed for humor in good times and bad and divulges what makes Kansans laugh.

African American Politics in Rural America
African American Politics in Rural America

Author: E. Ike Udogu

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780761835417

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While the specific focus of this work is African American politics in the 'margins' of the South, this timely work examines minority and ethnic politics in rural America and other democratic societies. More importantly, this study explores the politics of everyone with a racial and ethnically diverse rural root_and how the majority versus minority political competition is played out in society. Unlike most books on national, state, and local governments, African American Politics in Rural America is concerned with theory and political actors_particularly their perceptions, frustrations, and, sometimes, satisfaction with the complex processes of governance at the grassroots level in American politics.