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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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History, Frontier and pioneer life, Cowboys, Indians of North America, Women, African Americans, United States. Army. Cavalry, 9th, United States, United States. Army. Cavalry, 10th, United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 24th (1869-1951), United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 25th, Frontier and pioneer life, west (u.s.), West (u.s.), historyPlaces
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Table of Contents
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.
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