State of the Union

They’re larger than life, these men and women of the Old West who are part of America’s history and its legacy. They were bigger and braver, outrageous and bodacious, mean and mighty—take your pick. If history were static and if icons were honestly painted, we’d already know everything about them, but it isn’t and we don’t. Our selective reading of history has made villains of heroes and heroes of villains, and it will always be that way. But that doesn’t stop us from always sea