The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild
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Book Overview Named a Best Book of 2025 by Bloomberg"One hell of a good read." --The New York Times"One of the most important books written on the Amer...
Named a Best Book of 2025 by Bloomberg
"One hell of a good read." --The New York Times
"One of the most important books written on the American West in many years." --True West Magazine
From 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 America's most legendary gunfighters, from Jesse James and Billy the Kid to Butch and Sundance
The Wild West gunfighter is such a stock figure in our popular culture that some dismiss it as a mere product of dime novels and B movies. As Bryan Burrough shows us, there's much more below the surface. 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 reason behind this boils 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 presence of northern occupiers turned the heat up further. The explosion in the postwar cattle business took that violence and pumped it out from Texas across the West. The stampede of longhorn cattle brought with it an assortment of rustlers, hustlers, gamblers,
and freelance lawmen who carried a trigger-happy honor culture into a veritable
blood meridian.
The Gunfighters brilliantly sifts the lies from the truth, giving both elements their due. All the legendary figures are here, and their escapades are told with great flair--good, bad, and ugly. Burrough knits these histories together into something much deeper and more provocative than the sum of its parts. To understand the truth of the Wild West is to understand a crucial dimension of the American story.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 448 | Language: English | Publisher: PENGUIN PR | ISBN: 1984878905
FormatHardcover
Pages448
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1984878905
EAN9781984878908
PublisherPENGUIN PR
Publication Date2025-06-03
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.53 Pounds
Length9.45 Inches
Width6.59 Inches
Height1.52 Inches
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