| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
vii, 294 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"The companion volume to the Fox News series"--Jacket. |
| Summary |
"How did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life--only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone Ranger based on a real lawman--and was he an African American? What amazing detective work led to the capture of Black Bart, the 'gentleman bandit' and one of the West's most famous stagecoach robbers? Did Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid really die in a hail of bullets in South America? Generations of Americans have grown up on TV shows, movies, and books about these Western icons. But what really happened in the Wild West?"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Color map on lining papers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-292) |
| Contents |
Daniel Boone : traitor or patriot? -- David Crockett : Capitol hillbilly -- Kit Carson : duty before honor -- Black Bart : gentleman bandit -- Wild Bill Hickok : Plains justice -- Bass Reeves : the real Lone Ranger -- George Armstrong Custer : a general's reckoning -- Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley : the radical opportunists -- Jesse James : bloody politics -- Doc Holliday : desperate measures -- Billy the Kid : escape artist -- Butch Cassidy : the last man standing. |
| Summary |
A companion to Bill O'Reilly's documentary series Legends and Lies: The Real West offers an eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we know. |
| Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Anecdotes.
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY).
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HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
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West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
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West (U.S.) -- History -- Anecdotes.
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| Added Author |
O'Reilly, Bill.
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| Added Title |
Legends & lies: the real West |
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Real West |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and lies |
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Legends and lies |
| ISBN |
9781627795074 (hardback) |
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1627795073 (hardback) |
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