American mythmaker : Walter Noble Burns and the legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta / Mark J. Dworkin.

"Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta are fixed in the American imagination as towering legends of the Old West. But that has not always been the case. There was a time when these men were largely forgotten relics of a bygone era. Then, in the early twentieth century, an obscure Chicago n...

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Main Author: Dworkin, Mark J., 1946-2012 (Author)
Language:English
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]
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Physical Description:xv, 269 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part I. The Making of a Writer
  • Early Years
  • Part II. The Saga of Billy the Kid
  • The Story of Billy the Kid
  • The Research and the Creation of Characters
  • The Critics
  • The Saga of Billy the Kid in Folklore and the Arts
  • Part III. Tombstone : an Iliad of the Southwest
  • The Story and the Sources
  • The Writer and the Angry Old Lion
  • Creating Legends
  • The Critics
  • Part IV. Final Works
  • The Robin Hood of El Dorado : The Saga of Joaquín Murrieta, Famous Outlaw of California's Age of Gold
  • The Legacy of The Robin Hood of El Dorado
  • Later Years
  • Epilogue: The Legacy of Walter Noble Burns.