Summary
That's the beauty of the West: come on out, try on a hat, and play at being cowboy. Reinvent yourself. It's an old story, and Americans are seemingly happy to be fooled by it without end.
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New West Reader, Old West Myths
In modern parlance, a myth is a lie, but myth was once the sum and substance of history, religion, and ethics. Myths speak in the language of story and images, and throughout human history they have both reflected and shaped the emotional terrain of entire cultures. Contrast, for example, the world as depicted in the Mayan creation myth the Popol Vuh with the gods of the Greek pantheon. Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) wrote that myths ...
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