Revolvers and Pistolas, Vaqueros and Caballeros: Debunking the Old West

by D H Figueredo and D.H. Figueredo

This riveting expos reveals how a distorted belief in Anglo superiority necessitated the rewriting of American western history, replacing heroic images of Mexican and Spanish cowboys with negative stereotypes.

Early Anglo settlers in the Old West crafted negative images of Latinos in part to help justify the takeover of land occupied by Mexicans and Spaniards at the time. Unfortunately, these depictions were perpetuated throughout...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1440829187
• ISBN13: 9781440829185
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.4"