Jack Burrows
Auteur de John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was
Œuvres de Jack Burrows
"Digger!: The Vanished Miwoks of California," 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 38
- Popularité
- #383,442
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 7
Burrows spends most of time telling the reader why everybody else's biography of Ringo is wrong, and spends very little time telling us who John Ringo really was. In some ways I empathize with the author because there really is no substantial or reliable primary sources for a biography of Ringo. But frankly, having read a lot of history of the Old West, nothing in this book is new or revealing. While the exegesis and (extreme) criticism of Ringo's biographers was somewhat interesting -- it really becomes somewhat tedious.
Burrows could boiled this entire work down to a nice article in an academic historical journal -- and quite frankly probably should have.… (plus d'informations)