Download A Gentlemen's Guide to Style and Self-Defense in the Old American West: Traditional American History Series, Book 14 AudioBook Free
The Old Western has had a great impact on the concept of gentlemanly masculinity among People in america. To behave such as a gentleman may suggest little or much. To spend large amounts of money such as a gentleman may be of no great praise, but to execute oneself such as a gentleman implies a high standard even for those without financial means. For nearly two decades, the frontiersman has been a standard of rugged individualism and stoic bravery for the American men. Service provider, protector, counselor, and knight errant to the weak or helpless, men on the frontier stood aside. Newspapers, dime books, and Wild Western shows helped to form the popular view of Old Western masculinity in the later 19th century. Novels and short stories served this purpose in the first 50 % of the 20th century, but it was motion pictures and Television set that cemented the image of the Old Western that a lot of post-WWII Baby Boomers have today. The study of film and other marketing representations has been a particularly enthusiastic field for masculinity research. However, western motion pictures are not a great deal about the Western because they are about the Westerner. He stands together, heroic, powerful, and seeking justice and order. The Westerner is the "last gentleman" and Westerns are "probably the last art form in which the concept of honor retains its durability." Directors and screenwriters, eventually having conquer the simplistic shoot-em-up, used the genre to explore the pressing topics with their day like racism, nationalism, capitalism, family, and honor, issues more deeply meshed with the concept of manliness than wearing a firearm belt and Stetson head wear. Fear not, Old Western purists! For those traditionalists among you, this audiobook is filled with real designs, facts, weaponry, and stories from the middle-1800s to the change of the century and slightly beyond. Below are a few of the origins of the most popular holsters, styles, weaponry, cartridges, and misconceptions preferred by enthusiasts, reenactors, and cowboy action enthusiasts.
