Like most other serious students of American popular culture, William W. Savage, Jr., believes that by examining our heroes we learn about ourselves. In "The Cowboy Hero" he takes as his subject the cowboy of myth, dime novel, wild West show, legend, Hollywood, museum, and television.
With an introductory discussion of the elusive historical cowboy and an occasional return to his real world to keep the reader in balance, Savage reviews the cowboy hero in his various guises-as a cowboy doing the work of cowboys (seldom), as musician, as performer on state and in wild West shows, and above...
Like most other serious students of American popular culture, William W. Savage, Jr., believes that by examining our heroes we learn about ourselve...
"This immense book, by a noted bibliographer of the West, is beyond question the fairest, most complete and most learned evaluation of printed references to western outlaws to appear until now....It will stand for many years, solid as a rock amid the flooding maelstrom of western myth and legend, pointing up the truth about those men of the past who lived by their wits and their guns. It will be impossible for anyone studying that era and such men to do so without reference to this volume."--"Los Angeles Times"
"Adams turns again to the books and histories of the western gunmen and...
"This immense book, by a noted bibliographer of the West, is beyond question the fairest, most complete and most learned evaluation of printed refe...
In addition to their entertainment value, comic books offered a unique world-view to a large segment of the American public in the confusing decade following World War II. Millions were distributed to service personnel during the war years, and by 1945, adults as well as children were reading an astounding 60 million comic books per month. These books treated such contemporary concerns as the atomic and hydrogen bombs, growth of international Communism, and the Korean War, and they offered heroes and heroines to deal with such problems. In response to moral criticism, the industry established...
In addition to their entertainment value, comic books offered a unique world-view to a large segment of the American public in the confusing decade fo...
This novel follows native Nevadan Jack Ross, a private investigator who has about had it with murder and betrayal and is teetering on the edge of emotional collapse. But when called upon by a friend to help a young prostitute locate her grandfather, missing these forty years, he hits the cold trail again. Lawrence Parker vanished after killing a man, and Ross s search for him leads into the big silence of the desert, taking him through the alleys and backstreets of Reno to the doorstep of one of Nevada s most influential families. The flicker of changing identities, the shadow of blackmail,...
This novel follows native Nevadan Jack Ross, a private investigator who has about had it with murder and betrayal and is teetering on the edge of emot...
