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...
