Jeffrey Richardson’s favorite reads

Raised in Georgia, Jeffrey Richardson, the Autry National Center’s Gamble curator of Western History, Popular Culture and Firearms, is passionate about the intersection of history and popular culture in the West. While his earliest heroes were astronauts, football players and police officers, he remembers, after seeing Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, the birth of a new hero, the cowboy. A few years later, as he traveled west along Route 66 to graduate school at the University of Nevada-Las V