To many Americans, the Western aesthetic is a centerpiece of nostalgia. Despite the genre’s diminished popularity (I couldn’t tell you the last time I watched a true Western movie), mental images of cowboys before orange sunsets or shootouts outside saloons remain curiously easy to evoke. Because the Western genre has always prioritized its visuals, imagination.
Former correctional officer E.L. Coplen faced two life or death situations during the devastating July 1973 riot at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.
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The Pulitzer prize-winning author of “Blood Meridian,” “All the Pretty Horses,” and “The Road” went his own way, but was still very much in the American grain.
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyCormac McCarthy was American literature’s most famous lone wolf. While neither hermit nor recluse, he was a private man who avoided publicity–the number of interviews he granted reporters over the course of a six-decade career could be counted on one hand, and in none of those interviews could he be described as loquacious. He kept to himself, and he wrote accordingly: The brutish landscapes and the people therein that he surveyed in his