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A savagely enlightening experience not to be missed!
1881, Yuma City. Arizona Territory. The Wild West is at its peak wildness. The O.K. Corrale, smallpox returns, rounders is evlolving into baseball, our only year with three presidents. Trains, bicycles, and telegraphs have connected the continent. When ten immigrants blow into town. An Italian, Frenchman, German, Haitian, an Irishman, an Opium War veteran from China, two Catholics, and a couple of Latter-Day Saints...
A chain of events brings them together to determine the fate of a little girl. All surrounded by criminals, bandidos, and Indians, her rescue will prove challenging indeed. But the ten misfits soon find themselves to be each others greatest threats. After all, reward money can only be divided so many ways.
Who gets the loot, who gets the glory? Does the girl make it out of Mexico alive?
We've read numerous examples of the Western genre, yet most neglect the global contexts into which the West formed. Though this book doubts the American Frontier ever truly existed. Seeing as for thousands of years it had already known several civilizations. Rugged individualism and a sole rider conquering the wild...only if well-financed, well-protected, and a well-armed scheme to grab land counts...
Using the tropes of the Western, the true historical nature of the time comes alive. A historical fiction, rigorously researched and violently deployed to illustrate how the West was really won, who paid for it, and why the need to conquer in the first place. Gallops the Zodiac brushes with traditional aesthetics to reveal a scholarly portrait. Each character enters the stage in historical order, representing their respective immigrant experiences, in creating what we've come to call the myth of the Wild West.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A savagely enlightening experience not to be missed!1881, Yuma City. Arizona Territory. The Wild West is at its peak wildness. The O.K. Corrale, smallpox returns, rounders is evlolving into baseball, our only year with three presidents. Trains, bicycles, and telegraphs have connected the continent. When ten immigrants blow into town. An Italian, Frenchman, German, Haitian, an Irishman, an Opium War veteran from China, two Catholics, and a couple of Latter-Day Saints. A chain of events brings them together to determine the fate of a little girl. All surrounded by criminals, bandidos, and Indians, her rescue will prove challenging indeed. But the ten misfits soon find themselves to be each others greatest threats. After all, reward money can only be divided so many ways.Who gets the loot, who gets the glory? Does the girl make it out of Mexico alive? We've read numerous examples of the Western genre, yet most neglect the global contexts into which the West formed. Though this book doubts the American Frontier ever truly existed. Seeing as for thousands of years it had already known several civilizations. Rugged individualism and a sole rider conquering the wild.only if well-financed, well-protected, and a well-armed scheme to grab land counts. Using the tropes of the Western, the true historical nature of the time comes alive. A historical fiction, rigorously researched and violently deployed to illustrate how the West was really won, who paid for it, and why the need to conquer in the first place. Gallops the Zodiac brushes with traditional aesthetics to reveal a scholarly portrait. Each character enters the stage in historical order, representing their respective immigrant experiences, in creating what we've come to call the myth of the Wild West. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798666669204
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