A History Written in Blood When the West Was Wild

<p><strong>The truth about the Wild West has always been buried beneath dust blood and legend. This book digs it up.</strong></p><p>In <em>A History Written in Blood: When the West Was Wild</em> acclaimed historical author <strong>John Frances</strong> strips away the myths and movie gloss to reveal the raw unfiltered reality of America's most chaotic era. Told in vivid emotionally charged storytelling that reads like a novel but stays rooted in fact this book follows the birth rise and slow death of the Wild West-through the eyes of those who lived it and those who bled for it.</p><p>You won't find romantic cowboys or squeaky-clean sheriffs here. Instead you'll meet the real Billy the Kid-starving hunted unpredictable. You'll walk through the blood-soaked streets of Tombstone ride with Butch and Sundance before the fade to Bolivia and witness the quiet rage of Sitting Bull standing against impossible odds.</p><p>This is the West as it really was: brutal lawless and teetering between freedom and madness. From the first frontier trails to the final Hollywood fadeout <em>A History Written in Blood</em> tells the full story-chronologically truthfully and without apology.</p>