Author paints vivid portrait of "Wild West"
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DALLAS, Nov 21 (Reuters Life!) - America's often bloody conquest of the southwest as it pursued its "manifest destiny" is the subject of Hampton Sides' new book, a gripping narrative which centers on the enigmatic Christopher "Kit" Carson.
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W. Richard West Jr., the founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, spent $48,500 in museum funds to commission a portrait of himself.
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The 88-year-old author of The Golden Notebook is an inexhaustible and defiantly unique literary phenomenon
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âThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Fordâ feels more like a novelty than it would have in the 1950s when westerns were as ubiquitous as tumbleweeds.
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Peter Max, the artist whose  psychedelic style embodied the wild spirit of the 1960s, still  is amazed and bemused by the impact of his works.
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"Bleeding Kansas" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 448 pages, $25.95), by Sara Paretsky: The city of Chicago plays such an integral role in Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski mysteries that it's hard to imagine her setting a novel anywhere else.
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There is art, and there is money. The twain seldom meet. Or, to steal a line from David Thomson, author of the eminently useful reference work "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film" (Knopf, 1,008 pages, &#36;22.95), just out in paperback, there is "Chinatown," and then there are "umpteen possible future 'Mission: Impossibles."'
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A writer and a reader see both sides of ExxonMobil.
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By Andi Atwater, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Feb. 8--With significant economic development hopes riding on the frontier veneer of Wild West World, owner Thomas Etheredge excitedly announced this week he's 95 percent done with construction.
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The macho hunter image of Ernest Hemingway is replaced by a picture of the author as a confident and happy man in one of his last manuscripts, to be published this fall.
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The illustrator Norman Rockwell has often been mocked for creating an America that never was and never will be. But Kevin Rivoli, a photojournalist in upstate New York, will tell you thatâs just not true.
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Cormac McCarthyÂs new book would be pure misery if not for its stunning, savage beauty.
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American writer Russell Banks set out to be a painter but abandoned his brushes for a career as a writer that has spanned five decades.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Sean Demory realized a long-held dream of becoming a published comic book writer when "Thunder Road," a post-apocalyptic adventure he developed with artist Steven Sanders, was released.
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Denis Johnsonâs wildly ambitious new novel reads like a whacked-out, hallucinogenic variation on a Vietnam classic, and yet he manages to turn it into something original and potent.
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Michael Palin turns his wandering eye to the life and locales of Ernest Hemingway, moving between past and present in the places that meant so much to the author.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author was overwhelmed with the film.