Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Slotkin

Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America

Richard Slotkin

864 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

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Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin’s trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of the American frontier. Slotkin examines an impressive array of sources - fiction, Hollywood westerns, ...

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