Bryan Burrough is a journalist and author of eight books — four New York Times bestsellers — covering Wall Street excess, American crime, and Texas mythmaking. A Wall Street Journal investigative reporter turned longtime Vanity Fair special correspondent, he is now Editor at Large at Texas Monthly.
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Burrough's most recent book traces how Texas — not the mythic "Wild West" of Hollywood — actually produced the gunfighter as an American archetype, separating the real history from more than a century of embellishment.
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