Wanted: The Outlaw Lives of Billy the Kid & Ned Kelly . Lamar Series in Western History. By Robert M. Utley.
2016; Oxford University Press; Volume: 47; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/whq/whw187
ISSN1939-8603
Autores Tópico(s)Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
ResumoThe latest biography by renowned western historian Robert M. Utley is actually two for the price of one. In this one volume he describes the lives of two of the best-known folk heroes in the English-speaking world: New Mexico’s Billy the Kid and New South Wales’s Ned Kelly. In the first half of the book, Utley succinctly summarizes the sequence of events that launched one of America’s most popular outlaws into legend. He follows that with a discussion of the politics, cultural milieu, and chronology of Australia’s notorious bad man. His final chapter compares and contrasts the stories and frontier conditions that gave rise to the legends that arose from the underprivileged settlers in both nations’ frontiers. In a departure from most academic histories and biographies, Utley eschewed copious endnotes and a lengthy bibliography of primary sources. Instead, he closes his latest work with a simple bibliographical essay describing the published authorities on his subjects and where the interested reader can learn more about the two men.
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