Title: Breve historia del salvaje oeste
Subtitle: Pistoleros y forajidos
Description: Cowboys, outlaws, and gunslingers; breakaway wagons; Indian hunters riding through herds of buffaloes; laconic and bearded searchers of gold...Discover the exciting history of the Wild West, a world with many contradictions and filled with characters and situations in an unclear balance between good and evil.Little is truly known about the Wild West. Movies and literature have offered a distorted vision of this tumultuous historical period, making gunslingers and murderers into legendary outlaws and heroes. The truth is that many of them - Ben Thompson, Wild Bill Hickok, or Wyatt Earp - were restricted by the law that they served while others - Jesse James, Billy the Kid, or Sam Blass - were spurred on by an urge to build their own legend. There were others that, acting behind a judge's robe, imposed their law with arrogance and superiority. Such is the case of people like Roy Bean o Isaac Parker. The saloons, the gambling houses, the brothels were the backdrop for drunkenness, fights, duels, and famous shootouts.In A Brief History of the Wild West learn about the most infamous gunslingers, the most soulless bandits, the most valiant sheriffs, the most audacious women such as Calamity Jane or Belle Star, and all those personalities that became famous for living and dying with gunpowder in their blood.Poco se sabe de la verdadera historia del Salvaje Oeste. El cine y la literatura han ofrecido a menudo una vision distorsionada de este convulso periodo historico. Asi, pistoleros y asesinos se convirtieron en legendarios forajidos y miticos heroes. La realidad es que muchos de ellos como Ben Thompson, Wild Bill Hickok o Wyatt Earp, actuaron amparados por la ley que imponian sus placas y otros como Jesse James, Billy el Nino o Sam Blass actuaron alentados por construir su propia leyenda. Hubo tambien quienes, escudandose detras de la toga de juez, impusieron con arrogancia y prepotencia su ley como es el caso de Roy Bean o Isaac Parker.Los saloons, las casas de juego y los burdeles fueron escenario de borracheras, peleas, duelos y miticos tiroteos.En las paginas de la Breve Historia del Salvaje Oeste cabalgan los mas conspicuos pistoleros, los mas desalmados bandoleros, los mas intrepidos sheriffs, las mujeres mas audaces, como la mitica Calamity Jane o Belle Star y todos aquellos personajes que alcanzaron el renombre por vivir y morir con la polvora en la sangre.
Subjects: History, Nonfiction, Historia, Biography, Biografía
Places: Oeste (Estados Unidos), West (U.S.)
Time periods: 19th century, Siglo XIX