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Author by David Fisher
Genre : History
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN : 9781627795081
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historic series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we know How did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone Ranger based on a real lawman-and was he an African American? What amazing detective work led to the capture of Black Bart, the "gentleman bandit" and one of the west's most famous stagecoach robbers? Did Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid really die in a hail of bullets in South America? Generations of Americans have grown up on TV shows, movies and books about these western icons. But what really happened in the Wild West? All the stories you think you know, and others that will astonish you, are here--some heroic, some brutal and bloody, all riveting. Included are the ten legends featured in Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies docuseries -from Kit Carson to Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok to Doc Holliday-- accompanied by two bonus chapters on Daniel Boone and Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley. Frontier America was a place where instinct mattered more than education, and courage was necessary for survival. It was a place where luck made a difference and legends were made. Heavily illustrated with spectacular artwork that further brings this history to life, and told in fast-paced, immersive narrative, Legends and Lies is an irresistible, adventure-packed ride back into one of the most storied era of our nation's rich history.

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Author by Instaread
Genre : History
Publisher : Instaread Summaries
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Legends and Lies by Bill O’Reilly and David Fisher | Summary & Analysis Preview: In Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies: The Real West, each chapter is a standalone account of the life of an individual who was in some way notorious or iconic and lived their life during what is known as the Wild West, a period of the American frontier that spans from 1783 to 1920. Daniel Boone was a survivalist outdoorsman. In 1778, Boone was charged with treason for negotiating a truce between British forces and a Native American tribe. Boone defended himself and the charges were dismissed. In 1781, Boone ran for state legislature in Virginia and was twice elected to that office. After the Revolutionary War, he joined men fighting against Native Americans who were determined to hold on to their land. He was later robbed of a significant amount of money entrusted to him by Virginia settlers and spent decades selling land to pay it back… PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Inside this Instaread Summary & Analysis of Legends and Lies • Summary of book • Introduction to the Important People in the book • Analysis of the Themes and Author’s Style

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Author by David Fisher
Genre : History
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN : 9781250109859
Type : PDF & Epub
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The newest installment in the New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies; The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American history From the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy’s first convention, the Underground Railroad to the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies: The Civil War reveals the amazing and often little known stories behind the battle lines of America’s bloodiest war and debunks the myths that surround its greatest figures, including Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, General Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Stonewall Jackson, John Singleton Mosby, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, John Wilkes Booth, William Tecumseh Sherman, and more. An epic struggle between the past and future, the Civil War sought to fulfill the promise that “all men are created equal.” It freed an enslaved race, decimated a generation of young men, ushered in a new era of brutality in war, and created modern America. Featuring archival images, eyewitness accounts, and beautiful artwork that further brings the history to life, The Civil War is the action-packed and ultimate follow-up to the #1 bestsellers The Patriots and The Real West.

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Author by Paul Ashdown
Genre : History
Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN : 9780809337880
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Wild Bill’s ever-evolving legend When it came to the Wild West, the nineteenth-century press rarely let truth get in the way of a good story. James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok’s story was no exception. Mythologized and sensationalized, Hickok was turned into the deadliest gunfighter of all, a so-called moral killer, a national phenomenon even while he was alive. Rather than attempt to tease truth from fiction, coauthors Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill investigate the ways in which Hickok embodied the culture of glamorized violence Americans embraced after the Civil War and examine the process of how his story emerged, evolved, and turned into a viral multimedia sensation full of the excitement, danger, and romance of the West. Journalists, the coauthors demonstrate, invented “Wild Bill” Hickok, glorifying him as a civilizer. They inflated his body count and constructed his legend in the midst of an emerging celebrity culture that grew up around penny newspapers. His death by treachery, at a relatively young age, made the story tragic, and dime-store novelists took over where the press left off. Reimagined as entertainment, Hickok’s legend continued to enthrall Americans in literature, on radio, on television, and in the movies, and it still draws tourists to notorious Deadwood, South Dakota. American culture often embraces myths that later become accepted as popular history. By investigating the allure and power of Hickok’s myth, Ashdown and Caudill explain how American journalism and popular culture have shaped the way Civil War–era figures are remembered and reveal how Americans have embraced violence as entertainment.

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Author by Instaread
Genre : Literary Collections
Publisher : Instaread Summaries
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Missed out on the New York Times Best Sellers? Get this bundle now! It has a collection of Key Takeaways & Analysis on 25 Latest Non-Fiction New York Times Best Sellers. Below is the list of books you will get in this bundle: 1. Rising Strong: by Brene Brown | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review 2. Being Mortal: by Atul Gawande | A 15-minute Key Takeaways & Analysis: Medicine and What Matters in the End 3. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: by Marie Kondo | A 15-minute Key Takeaways & Analysis: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing 4. It IS About Islam: by Glenn Beck | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review: Exposing the Truth About ISIS, Al Qaeda, Iran, and the Caliphate 5. Primates of Park Avenue by Wednesday Martin: Summary & Analysis 6. Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole by Ann Coulter: Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review 7. Plunder and Deceit: by Mark R. Levin | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review 8. Legends and Lies by Bill O'Reilly and David Fisher | Summary & Analysis: The Real West 9. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald | A Review 10.Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance | Summary & Analysis: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future 11.The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown | Summary & Analysis: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 12.The Power of Habit: by Charles Duhigg | A 15-minute Key Takeaways & Analysis: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business 13.The Road to Character by David Brooks | Key Takeaways & Analysis 14.The Wright Brothers by David McCullough | Key Takeaways & Analysis 15.Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli | Summary & Analysis: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader 16.Goddesses Never Age by Christiane Northrup M.D. | Key Takeaways & Analysis: The Secret Prescription for Radiance, Vitality, and Well-Being 17.Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal | Key Takeaways & Analysis: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World 18.Zero to One by Peter Thiel - A 20-minute Instaread Summary: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future 19.The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: by Rebecca Skloot | A 15-minute Key Takeaways & Analysis 20.Dead Wake: by Erik Larson | Summary & Analysis: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania 21.Missoula by Jon Krakauer | Summary & Analysis: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town 22.The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee | Key Takeaways & Analysis: A Biography of Cancer 23.Money Master the Game: by Tony Robbins | A 15-minute Key Takeaways & Analysis: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom 24.It Starts With Food: by Melissa and Dallas Hartwig | A 15-minute Key Takeaways & Analysis 25.Brain Maker by Dr. David Perlmutter and Kristin Loberg | A Review: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain-for Life

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Author by Devon A. Mihesuah
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN : 9780806160672
Type : PDF & Epub
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Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr’s death for a crime he did not commit? For more than a century, journalists, pulp fiction authors, and even serious historians have produced largely fictitious accounts of “Ned” Christie’s life. Now, in a tour de force of investigative scholarship, Devon A. Mihesuah offers a far more accurate depiction of Christie and the times in which he lived. In 1887 Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Maples was shot and killed in Tahlequah, Indian Territory. As Mihesuah recounts in unsurpassed detail, any of the criminals in the vicinity at the time could have committed the crime. Yet the federal court at Fort Smith, Arkansas, focused on Christie, a Cherokee Nation councilman and adviser to the tribal chief. Christie evaded capture for five years. His life ended when a posse dynamited his home—knowing he was inside—and shot him as he emerged from the burning building. The posse took Christie’s body to Fort Smith, where it lay for three days on display for photographers and gawkers. Nede’s family suffered as well. His teenage cousin Arch Wolfe was sentenced to prison and ultimately perished in the Canton Asylum for “insane” Indians—a travesty that, Mihesuah shows, may even surpass the injustice of Nede’s fate. Placing Christie’s story within the rich context of Cherokee governance and nineteenth-century American political and social conditions, Mihesuah draws on hundreds of newspaper accounts, oral histories, court documents, and family testimonies to assemble the most accurate portrayal of Christie’s life possible. Yet the author admits that for all this information, we may never know the full story, because Christie’s own voice is largely missing from the written record. In addition, she spotlights our fascination with villains and martyrs, murder and mayhem, and our dangerous tendency to glorify the “Old West.” More than a biography, Ned Christie traces the making of an American myth.

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Author by Richard W. Etulain
Genre : History
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN : 9780806168081
Type : PDF & Epub
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A central character in legends and histories of the Old West, Billy the Kid rivals such western icons as Jesse James and General George Armstrong Custer for the number of books and movies his brief, violent life inspired. Billy the Kid: A Reader’s Guide introduces readers to the most significant of these written and filmed works. Compiled and written by a respected historian of the Old West and author of a masterful new biography of Billy the Kid, this reader’s guide includes summaries and evaluations of biographies, histories, novels, and movies, as well as archival sources and research collections. Surveying newspaper articles, books, pamphlets, essays, and book chapters, Richard W. Etulain traces the shifting views of Billy the Kid from his own era to the present. Etulain’s discussion of novels and movies reveals a similar shift, even as it points out both the historical inaccuracies and the literary and cinematic achievements of these works. A brief section on the authentic and supposed photographs of the Kid demonstrates the difficulties specialists and collectors have encountered in locating dependable photographic sources. This discerning overview will guide readers through the plethora of words and images generated by Billy the Kid’s life and legend over more than a century. It will prove invaluable to those interested in the demigods of the Old West—and in the ever-changing cultural landscape in which they appear to us.

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Author by Eureka
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN : 1545101337
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PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A GUIDE TO THE ORIGINAL BOOK. Guide to Bill O'Reilly's & et al Legends and Lies Preview: In Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West, each chapter is a standalone account of the life of an individual who was in some way notorious or iconic and lived their life during what is known as the Wild West, a period of the American frontier that spans from 1783 to 1920. Daniel Boone was a survivalist outdoorsman. In 1778, Boone was charged with treason for negotiating a truce between British forces and a Native American tribe Boone defended himself and the charges were dismissed... Inside this companion: - Summary of the book - Important People - Character Analysis - Analysis of the Themes and Author's Style

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Author by Kern G. Lim
Genre : Political Science
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN : 9781480863996
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After the last Civil War, America emerged a stronger and more united country that went on to witness major economic growth and become a major force for Democracy around the World. America is currently in a New Cold Civil War, it is at a critical inflection point and faces the most serious threat to its democracy in its history. Its Dynamic Free Market Capitalism has been replaced by Crony Capitalism from Wall Street, which is hobbling the proper allocation of Financial Capital to Main Street, thereby stifling real new business growth. In this political commentary, the author argues that we still do not fully understand the negative effects of convergence and consolidation in information technology. We are also overlooking the fact that the rhetoric in both the social and Main-stream Media are being monopolized by the same special interest groups that funds the Activists and control a majority of information technology companies. While muckraker journalists used to look out for our interests, today the media are mostly in cahoots with the tech companies as well as celebrities, activist judges, corporations, and Wall Street capitalists. As such the American people stand alone with no one on their side except the current President whom they had elected on 8th Nov 2016. With odds stacked against them, do Americans stand a chance? Get the answer to that question and many more, also discover what you can do to protect American democracy and help unchain free market capitalism to drive economic growth in America. In our current environment of emotional hysteria hyped up by the Social and Main-stream Media, this book attempts a facts-based approach, leveraging business management methodologies and discipline to analyze issues and their causations. All derived conclusions are also supported by historical equivalents, fundamental concepts per relevant disciplines, related organizational Cultures and finally the motivations and personal agendas of the participants. This fresh new approach is most interesting as it is neither aligned with the left nor right, an independent, unbiased approach to problem-solving.

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Author by Bill O'Reilly
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ISBN : 1250131057
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