Renegade Westerns: Movies That Shot Down Frontier Myths

The Western is America's definitive contribution to cinema, a bullet-spattered blueprint for the nation's image of itself and its place in the world. To watch a western is to witness the birth of a nation, overseen by square-jawed sheriffs and steel-nerved gunfighters, armed with six-guns and a clear moral vision. Their victories against outlaws and Indians were proof that might was right — so long as it was in the correct hands.
Renegade Westerns shows the shadowy side of this picture, whe...