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- catalog abstract ""Written with Lead offers a compelling narrative history of twenty-one tragic episodes in American history - all involving firearms, heroes, and the ongoing public fascination with guns and gunfighters. Spotlighting events such as the massacre at Little Bighorn and the bloody ambush of Bonnie and Clyde, and featuring three new essays (including one on the siege at Waco, Texas), William Weir explores the history, culture, and mythology of guns in surprising and unpredictable ways."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b13063045.
- catalog coverage "United States History Anecdotes.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Written with Lead offers a compelling narrative history of twenty-one tragic episodes in American history - all involving firearms, heroes, and the ongoing public fascination with guns and gunfighters. Spotlighting events such as the massacre at Little Bighorn and the bloody ambush of Bonnie and Clyde, and featuring three new essays (including one on the siege at Waco, Texas), William Weir explores the history, culture, and mythology of guns in surprising and unpredictable ways."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-347) and index.".
- catalog description "Preface to the Cooper Square Press Edition -- Foreword: American Myths -- The Age of Revolution -- 1. One Scalp and Three Shots Change the World -- 2. Interview in Weehawken, Mystery in the West -- 3. "Remember the Alamo!" -- Expansion and Growing Pains -- The Indians -- 4. Long Shot -- 5. Last Stand -- Expansion and Growing Pains -- The Gunfighters -- 6. "Get Your Guns, Boys!" -- 7. A Shot in the Dark -- 8. Nothing Okay at the O.K. Corral -- Expansion and Growing Pains -- Little Wars -- 9. New Year's Party -- 10. The War on Powder River -- Time Warp -- 11. "The Most Remarkable Man-Hunt" -- 12. "Viva Villa!" -- 13. One-Man Army -- Prohibition, Depression, and Interstate Crime -- 14. Valentine Present -- 15. Hello, Young Lovers -- 16. A Night at the Movies -- 17. Dutch Treat -- 18. The Friends of Specks O'Keefe -- Law and Disorder -- 19. Showtime! -- 20. Gothic Tale -- 21. The Low Cost of Terror.".
- catalog extent "xi, 354 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Written with lead.".
- catalog identifier "0815412894 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Written with lead.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Cooper Square Press ; [Lanham, Md.] : Distributed by National Book Network,".
- catalog relation "Written with lead.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Anecdotes.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973 22".
- catalog subject "E179 .W43 2003".
- catalog subject "Firearms Social aspects United States History Anecdotes.".
- catalog subject "Outlaws United States History Anecdotes.".
- catalog subject "Violence United States History Anecdotes.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface to the Cooper Square Press Edition -- Foreword: American Myths -- The Age of Revolution -- 1. One Scalp and Three Shots Change the World -- 2. Interview in Weehawken, Mystery in the West -- 3. "Remember the Alamo!" -- Expansion and Growing Pains -- The Indians -- 4. Long Shot -- 5. Last Stand -- Expansion and Growing Pains -- The Gunfighters -- 6. "Get Your Guns, Boys!" -- 7. A Shot in the Dark -- 8. Nothing Okay at the O.K. Corral -- Expansion and Growing Pains -- Little Wars -- 9. New Year's Party -- 10. The War on Powder River -- Time Warp -- 11. "The Most Remarkable Man-Hunt" -- 12. "Viva Villa!" -- 13. One-Man Army -- Prohibition, Depression, and Interstate Crime -- 14. Valentine Present -- 15. Hello, Young Lovers -- 16. A Night at the Movies -- 17. Dutch Treat -- 18. The Friends of Specks O'Keefe -- Law and Disorder -- 19. Showtime! -- 20. Gothic Tale -- 21. The Low Cost of Terror.".
- catalog title "Written with lead : America's most famous and notorious gunfights from the Revolutionary War to today / William Weir.".
- catalog type "Anecdotes. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".