![]() ![]() People who didn’t necessarily have a place in the new western world of the mid-twentieth century and had to find small, offbeat spaces for themselves in a time when there were no words for what they sought. ![]() ![]() A Midwesterner who was weaned on Gunsmoke and Cormac McCarthy, who accompanied her grandmother on trips to Las Vegas, and who ultimately went west to California herself, Pufahl wanted to write into the form by telling the stories of those who’d been othered: namely, queer people. Shannon Pufahl is a lover of westerns, but not always all parts of them. But those well-worn iconographies-and the heroic fictional figures who bring the myth to life-obscure the ordinary people who helped create the real history, particularly those living at the margins. Everyone knows the signifiers of our national American myth, the western: Dusty boots, horses and cowboys, saloons and gamblers, manifest destinies. ![]()
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