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The Wild West Catalog
This beautiful hardcover is chock-full of maps, memorabilia, archival photos (300 in all), summaries of Western TV shows, and movie reviews, all spanning 100 years of one of the most exciting periods in American history. It includes 12 favorite cowboy recipes from the chuckwagon, plus the history of camp cooks and how the men and women of the West ate on the trail. The beautiful archival photos depict Western towns, lawmen, and outlaws. They also offer close-ups of a variety of popular frontier weapons, great for gun enthusiasts and collectors.This is the West as beloved in books, toys, “Cowboy and Injun” shows, movies and music—this attractively priced, full-color book will be a great addition to any collector’s library.
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256 pages, Hardcover
First published August 11, 2008
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December 16, 2021
The wild west catalog is a culmination of multiple different chapters all attaining to different subject ranging from gunslingers to pioneer priests.
AS this is one of the most famous time periods in american history there are a lot of good quotes but on that topic is my favorite is from one of the best generals of mankind. "The only true role for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats "-Stonewall Jackson, this elaborates on obviously talks about the real life cavalry. But this also relates to the idea of the cavalry in the aspect of reinforcements and have been used in a ton of pop media. This also to relates to the wildness of the west as war was rampet. Though I disagree with his allegiances I cannot deny his genius.
The main bulk of it is broken into sections/chapter attaining to different subjects and you could open it with no real worry and still get the gist. One of my favorite chapters is the one about gunslingers, one of the most recognizable of the wild west. though a lot of what pop media shows us in movies like The good, the bad and the ugly, is true there are many falsehoods to these movies. For one the iconic duel at high noon only happened around three times as gunslingers were more inclined in shooting adversaries in the back. Another chapter I am rather fond of is the chuck wagon, the main kitchen on the cattle drive trails. There are many good dinner recipes in the book.
The book is not very chronological at all but through all the story's there are some underlining themes shared through the book such as hardship and perseverance in the western community.
From the first half of the book there is a story of all that went west living in houses than were merely made of dirt and grass showing the poor living conditions of the time. At the end half of the book there was a more sad story about prostitutes and saloon women as when they were older and out of work vast majority would end there own lives. But even with these hardships humanity and the american people showed great perseverance. Exampled with Denver, at the time known as cherry creek, transformed from nothing but a pile of sticks to what we know it as today.
AS this is one of the most famous time periods in american history there are a lot of good quotes but on that topic is my favorite is from one of the best generals of mankind. "The only true role for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats "-Stonewall Jackson, this elaborates on obviously talks about the real life cavalry. But this also relates to the idea of the cavalry in the aspect of reinforcements and have been used in a ton of pop media. This also to relates to the wildness of the west as war was rampet. Though I disagree with his allegiances I cannot deny his genius.
The main bulk of it is broken into sections/chapter attaining to different subjects and you could open it with no real worry and still get the gist. One of my favorite chapters is the one about gunslingers, one of the most recognizable of the wild west. though a lot of what pop media shows us in movies like The good, the bad and the ugly, is true there are many falsehoods to these movies. For one the iconic duel at high noon only happened around three times as gunslingers were more inclined in shooting adversaries in the back. Another chapter I am rather fond of is the chuck wagon, the main kitchen on the cattle drive trails. There are many good dinner recipes in the book.
The book is not very chronological at all but through all the story's there are some underlining themes shared through the book such as hardship and perseverance in the western community.
From the first half of the book there is a story of all that went west living in houses than were merely made of dirt and grass showing the poor living conditions of the time. At the end half of the book there was a more sad story about prostitutes and saloon women as when they were older and out of work vast majority would end there own lives. But even with these hardships humanity and the american people showed great perseverance. Exampled with Denver, at the time known as cherry creek, transformed from nothing but a pile of sticks to what we know it as today.
July 22, 2020
This oversize volume does include some nasty little misprints, and also a dozen or two errors of fact that you'll catch if you've read as much about the Old West as I have. Still, the illustrations are great, and several of the sections (including the chapter on gunfighters and the chuckwagon recipes) equal or surpass anything I've found. On balance, certainly worth your time; just do a bit of fact-checking before you take everything at face value.
July 29, 2012
A lot of valuable information about the classic American West and the people who lived in it. Good read although many typos and repeated phrases, makes me wonder about the publisher.
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