Lively. ... These pages read more like a movie script than a history book ... At times I felt like I was reading a Russian novel as so many characters crisscrossed and double-crossed: one day a villain, the next a victim. But it’s also satisfying to watch Burrough explode the legends of the late frontier the way Butch Cassidy dynamited safes ... Burrough scrapes off more than a century of dust and dried blood to give us a work that is part history, part biography, part sociology. In his hands, printing the facts makes for one hell of a good read.
Lively ... A worthy subject for his engrossing history, which will prove a valuable companion while you’re watching any installment of what is perhaps one of our greatest indigenous art forms.
Burrough is the talented author...who knows how to write colorfully about colorful personalities ... Burrough’s survey of miscreants neatly sizes up the Wild West myths and archetypes as products of a bellicose culture born in the American South before the Civil War.
Captivating ... A fascinating work of history that challenges readers to reconsider the role of the West’s legendary gunfighters in shaping the identity of the United States.
