A-B-C's of Western Lore: Old West Tales You Haven't Heard or Didn't Believe

If you happen to be a fan of some of the actual or fictional stories of the wild and wooly American West in the nineteenth century, you might as well know that a lot of it was made up of cheap, sensational material that was often a pack of lies created by the vivid imagination of the writers. It was their way of drawing enough attention that they could sell their articles to magazines or elsewhere.

In spite of the verbal skullduggery, this fabricated output became a force in shaping the myth...