“A fascinating examination of the genesis of the Western novel and its influence on the modern American novel . . . full of rip-roaring yarns.” —James Rea

The Wild West came alive under the pen of Edward Zane Carroll Judson, who wrote many of America's best-loved "dime novels ”under the pseudonym Ned Buntline. F

In assembling Gildersleeve's writings-- autobiographical, Richmond Examiner newspaper editorials, and Southern essays, Briggs (classics and humanities, U. of So