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Of Chiles, Cacti, and Fighting Cocks: Notes on the American West: Easyread Large Edition - Softcover
Synopsis
In this celebrated collection of essays, the real and the legendary American West collide, and in their wake we are blessed with the carefully crafted and sharp-witted observations of Frederick Turner - historian, storyteller, biographer, and naturalist. Of Chiles, Cacti, and Fighting Cocks, expanded with three new essays, explores the crossroads where Eastern America's imagination meets the hard twist, rough-and-tumble West, a place where legends and men have been made and broken. ''A winsome collection of notes on the American West that shines a light down into the back corners of history, emerging with tales and insights as hearty and unceremonious as the people and society Turner portrays.''
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Review
"This is a book for every East-coast armchair cowboy; every child who grew up in the Old West of the imagination ..."
About the Author
Frederick Turner has been gathering notes on the American West, consciously and otherwise, ever since he first gazed upon these superb spaces in the summer of 1951. Mr. Turner lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of seven books that explore the American experience.
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