Inventing Billy the Kid: Visions of the Outlaw in America, 1881-1981

by Stephen Tatum

Book by Tatum, Stephen

Genres: History

242 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Robert Stephen Tatum is a literary scholar specializing in Western American literature, visual culture, and cultural theory. His work explores themes such as regional identity, frontier mythology, and masculinity in both literature and visual art. He is the author of In the Remington Moment and Inventing Billy the Kid, and wrote Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses: A Reader’s Guide. He co-edited Reading The Virginian in the New West, and his award-winning essays have appeared in journals like Western American Literature and Arizona Quarterly. Tatum has also lectured widely and is currently working on Morta Las Vegas: CSI and the Problem of the West, a study of Las Vegas in Western cultural discourse.