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“It used to be that the best way for a westerner, male or female, to get mentioned in the papers was to shoot up a town.”
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"What was achieved and destroyed, what was made up and forgotten in the American West as the continent was mapped, the natives were displaced, and exploits were transformed into legends? In this new collection, Larry McMurtry profiles explorers and martyrs, hucksters and scholars - figures in the West's enduring yet ever-shifting mixture of myth and reality. "--BOOK JACKET.