Author paints vivid portrait of "Wild West"
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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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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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During a drive with the author in Northwest Washington, it becomes clear how real the fictional city in his new collection of stories is.
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John Cerney has chosen to display his works of giant plywood people in the fields of Monterey County, Calif., using the expanse of sky and miles of crops as his canvas.
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For collectors of Western art and would-be cowboys, the major showdown is an auction in Reno.
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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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Valerie Plame Wilson emerges as an ambitious, gung-ho professional, dedicated to her work yet colorful in ways no Hollywood storyteller would dare to make up.
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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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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 director He Ping's panoramic epic is the latest Chinese answer to the American western film genre: martial arts meets Marshal Will Kane.
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Vividly impressionistic and delightfully curious, âPrimo Leviâs Journeyâ retraces the writerâs arduous return from a liberated Auschwitz to his home in Italy.
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The author of "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible" exposed the flaws in the fabric of the American dream.
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming  - Most art lovers agree   that no artist captures the grandeur of the American West and   its wildlife better than ... Andy Warhol?
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By Joseph M. Dougherty Deseret Morning News  In a couple weeks, Brandon Hunt's work will take him across Davis County, where he will battle all sorts of unsavory characters.
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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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Hero splashes love and death in ravishing colors
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âChuck Close,â about the painter, photographer and printmaker by the documentary filmmaker Marion Cajori, truly excels in its depiction of the physical process of making art.