Shares ten stories featuring legendary places, events, and characters from the era of westward expansion.

A collection of funny tall tales featuring cowboys, cowgirls, and other characters from the Wild West.

Tales of the Wild, Wild West: The Lady and the Gent -- Sheriff Billings, now on the water wagon, has his hands full as Stud, a friend from his old life style, rides into town. Seems trouble always follows Stud, and the new Sheriff Billings will have to deal with those problems. Miss Sally is not sure if she is glad to see Stud. It has been about eight years since he left town and broke her heart as he said, "I've business to take care of." Now he is back and she is confused as to her true feelings for this whiskey guzzling gambler and man about town. Perhaps the Reverend Robert (Brother Rob) McKinley can help out. He tells Stud that he has never delivered babies, but does know how to pray. He's rather adept at handling a Colt .45 as well. Then there is that mysterious woman in black who affectionately addresses the bachelor preacher as, "Robbie Dear," and tells him, "The children miss you." Despite his struggles, can Brother Rob, with the Lord's help, tame this wild town? Only time will tell.

A photo-journalist called Peppercorn, sets off to South Dakota, to find his inner cowboy (and, more prosaically, to write an article on the Buffalo Roundup at Custer State Park for travel magazine Terra Incognita). With a cast of larger-than-life charactersincluding Peppercorns cousin, Saltzman, lecturer in (and soon-to-be saviour of) the University of St. Albans School of American Studies; Mercy Sweetbriar, Rapid Citys representative from the Department of Tourism, and runner-up in the Appearance, Personality, and Photogenics category in South Dakotas Miss Rodeo contest; and tarted-up trailer trash Miami Bitch, sporting denim hotpants and deep-pan cleavageand combining fact, fantasy, and fiction, Clive Sinclairs True Tales of the Wilde West is a glorious romp through the legends and landscapes of the American West.

For several hundred years, the West had been the land of dreams, an extraordinary region of hope, expansion and opportunity where European countries—and then the young USA itself—sent their finest explorers to plant seeds in a seemingly untapped, open landscape. This spirit captured the popular imagination in the Wild West, those raucous 30 years between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of a new century. Within these pages, readers will explore true tales of rebels and heroes such as General George Custer, Buffalo Bill, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Annie Oakley, and Sitting Bull, among others. The Wild West was the American Dream on steroids. It was an age of gunfights and gold rushes, cowboys and Comanches, with the likes of Buffalo Bill, Jesse James and Billy the Kid making their names. It forged extraordinary legends and even bigger lies, with everything fueled by dime novels written back East that encouraged folks to grab their share of a promise that was difficult for this hard land to keep. This book looks at all these mythical characters, the start of the railroad across the nation, the cost it all dealt to the Native Americans whose land was lost, and the way Hollywood still keeps the dream alive. As historian Richard White says, “People could go west and no matter their failures elsewhere, they had an opportunity to remake themselves. It’s a symbol for a kind of individualism that actually doesn’t exist in the West, but mythically it does.”

The 'Wild West' stories of Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone pale in comparison to the incredible story of Las Vegas, New Mexico, for decades considered the most violent community on America's western frontier. In Wildest of the Wild West, popular Western historian Howard Bryan provides a spirited account of the violent, melodramatic, and often bizarre events that centred in and around this small Hispanic farm and ranching community from 1835 to 1915.

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