American Mythmaker: Walter Noble Burns and the Legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta

by Mark J. Dworkin

Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaqu n 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 newspaperman changed all that.

Walter Noble Burns (1872-1932) served with the First Kentucky Infantry during the Spanish-American War and covered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806146850
• ISBN13: 9780806146850
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.1"