Posted inJuly 21, 2008: A fractured party

Denial and delusion

Your cover story featuring Jeffery Lockwood’s article, “Why the West needs Mythic Cowboys,” is an apropos commentary (HCN, 6/9/08). However, Mr. Lockwood is missing the point — namely, most of the fiction and movies on the subject are constructed to support the principle that “might makes right” and that conflicts are settled with rifles, pistols […]

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