TRAIL DRIVING DAYS (264 pp.)—Dee Brown & Martin F. Schmitt—Scribner ($7.50). The situation in the Mingusville, S. Dak. saloon, that night in 1885, seemed to be stacked against the spectacled dude from ...

Author Bryan Burrough and his new book, “The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild.” One of the enduring images of the Old West era is that of the gun-slinging cowboy, which was popularized by ...

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Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. The Western genre's revisionist period around the 1960s ...

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WESTERN WORDS — Ramon F. Adams —Universify of Oklahoma Press ($3). When an oldtime cowboy wanted to tell how drunk he had been, he said he was so drunk he couldn’t hit the ground with his hat in three ...