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Subtitle: essays on the American West
By: Larry McMurtry.
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- History.; West (U.S.) -- History.; West (U.S.) -- Biography.; West (U.S.) -- Historiography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.