Of Chiles, Cacti, and Fighting Cocks Notes on the American West

In this celebrated collection of essays, the real and the legendary American West collide, and in their wake we are blessed with the carefully crafted and sharp-witted observations of Frederick Turner-historian, storyteller, biographer, and naturalist. Of Chiles, Cacti, and Fighting Cocks, expanded with three new essays, explores the crossroads where Eastern America's imagination meets the hard twist, rough-and-tumble West, a place where legends and men have been made and broken. Book jacket.Turner, Frederick is the author of 'Of Chiles, Cacti, and Fighting Cocks Notes on the American West', published 2004 under ISBN 9781555914868 and ISBN 1555914861.