American mythmaker: Walter Noble Burns and the legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta
"Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín 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 Chic...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín 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 General John J. Pershing's pursuit of Pancho Villa in Mexico as a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. However history-making these forays may seem, they were only the beginning. In the last six years of his life, Burns wrote three books that propelled New Mexico outlaw Billy the Kid, Tombstone marshal Wyatt Earp, and California bandit Joaquín Murrieta into the realm of legend. Despite Burns's remarkable command of his subjects...based on exhaustive research and interviews...he has been largely ignored by scholars because of the popular, even occasionally fictional, approach he employed. In American Mythmaker, the first literary biography of Burns, Mark J. Dworkin brings Burns out of the shadows. Through careful analysis of The Saga of Billy the Kid (1926), Tombstone : an Iliad of the Southwest (1927), and The Robin Hood of Eldorado : the Saga of Joaquin Murrieta (1932) and their reception, Dworkin shows how Burns used his journalistic training to introduce the history of the American West to his era's general readership. In the process, Burns made his subjects household names. Are Burns's books fact or fiction? Was he a historian or a novelist? Dworkin considers these questions as he uncovers the story behind Burns's mythmaking works. A long-overdue biography of a writer who shaped our idea of Western history, American Mythmaker documents in fascinating detail the fashioning of some of the greatest American legends".. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XV, 269 S. Ill. |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Illustrations
vii
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
Author s Note
xv
Part I: The Making of a Writer
i. Early Years
3
Part II: The Saga of Billy the Kid
2..
The Story of Billy the Kid
15
3.
The Research and the Creation of Characters
2,0
4.
The Critics
37
5.
The Saga of Billy the Kid in Folklore and the Arts
63
Part III: Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest
6.
The Story and the Sources
81
7.
The Writer and the Angry Old Lion
93
8.
Creating Legends
114
9.
The Critics
130
Part IV: Final Works
10.
The Robin Hood of El Dorado: Tloe Saga of
Joaquín Murrieta,
Famous
Outlaiv of California s Age of Gold
145
Contents
11.
The Legacy of The Robin Hood of El Dorado
159
12.
Later Years
165
Epilogue:
ТЪе
Legacy of Walter Noble Burns
179
Appendix A: John Giichriese and the Walter Noble Burns
Papers
183
Appendix B: Unpublished Fragment from the Walter Noble Burns
Papers about Bear River Tom Smith
186
Appendix C: Selected Writings by Walter Noble Burns
189
Notes
193
Bibliography
239
Index
255
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| spelling | Dworkin, Mark J. 1946-2012 Verfasser (DE-588)1077067895 aut American mythmaker Walter Noble Burns and the legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta Mark J. Dworkin Norman, Okla. Univ. of Oklahoma Press 2015 XV, 269 S. Ill. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index "Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín 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 General John J. Pershing's pursuit of Pancho Villa in Mexico as a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. However history-making these forays may seem, they were only the beginning. In the last six years of his life, Burns wrote three books that propelled New Mexico outlaw Billy the Kid, Tombstone marshal Wyatt Earp, and California bandit Joaquín Murrieta into the realm of legend. Despite Burns's remarkable command of his subjects...based on exhaustive research and interviews...he has been largely ignored by scholars because of the popular, even occasionally fictional, approach he employed. In American Mythmaker, the first literary biography of Burns, Mark J. Dworkin brings Burns out of the shadows. Through careful analysis of The Saga of Billy the Kid (1926), Tombstone : an Iliad of the Southwest (1927), and The Robin Hood of Eldorado : the Saga of Joaquin Murrieta (1932) and their reception, Dworkin shows how Burns used his journalistic training to introduce the history of the American West to his era's general readership. In the process, Burns made his subjects household names. Are Burns's books fact or fiction? Was he a historian or a novelist? Dworkin considers these questions as he uncovers the story behind Burns's mythmaking works. A long-overdue biography of a writer who shaped our idea of Western history, American Mythmaker documents in fascinating detail the fashioning of some of the greatest American legends".. Burns, Walter Noble, 1872-1932 Burns, Walter Noble, 1872-1932 Literary art Burns, Walter Noble, 1872-1932 Criticism and interpretation Burns, Walter Noble 1872-1932 (DE-588)1055099077 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1900-2000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary bisacsh HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) bisacsh HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) bisacsh Legends United States Legends in literature Authors, American 20th century Biography Historians United States Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) USA (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content Burns, Walter Noble 1872-1932 (DE-588)1055099077 p DE-604 Digitalisierung UB Passau - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=027928268&sequence=000005&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis Digitalisierung UB Passau - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=027928268&sequence=000006&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Klappentext |
| spellingShingle | Dworkin, Mark J. 1946-2012 American mythmaker Walter Noble Burns and the legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta Burns, Walter Noble, 1872-1932 Burns, Walter Noble, 1872-1932 Literary art Burns, Walter Noble, 1872-1932 Criticism and interpretation Burns, Walter Noble 1872-1932 (DE-588)1055099077 gnd BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary bisacsh HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) bisacsh HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) bisacsh Legends United States Legends in literature Authors, American 20th century Biography Historians United States Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) |
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| title | American mythmaker Walter Noble Burns and the legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta |
| title_auth | American mythmaker Walter Noble Burns and the legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta |
| title_exact_search | American mythmaker Walter Noble Burns and the legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta |
| title_full | American mythmaker Walter Noble Burns and the legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta Mark J. Dworkin |
| title_fullStr | American mythmaker Walter Noble Burns and the legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta Mark J. Dworkin |
| title_full_unstemmed | American mythmaker Walter Noble Burns and the legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta Mark J. Dworkin |
| title_short | American mythmaker |
| title_sort | american mythmaker walter noble burns and the legends of billy the kid wyatt earp and joaquin murrieta |
| title_sub | Walter Noble Burns and the legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta |
| topic | Burns, Walter Noble, 1872-1932 Burns, Walter Noble, 1872-1932 Literary art Burns, Walter Noble, 1872-1932 Criticism and interpretation Burns, Walter Noble 1872-1932 (DE-588)1055099077 gnd BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary bisacsh HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) bisacsh HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) bisacsh Legends United States Legends in literature Authors, American 20th century Biography Historians United States Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) |
| topic_facet | Burns, Walter Noble, 1872-1932 Burns, Walter Noble, 1872-1932 Literary art Burns, Walter Noble, 1872-1932 Criticism and interpretation Burns, Walter Noble 1872-1932 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) Legends United States Legends in literature Authors, American 20th century Biography Historians United States Biography USA Biografie |
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