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Best Shot in the West by Patricia McKissack, Frederick L McKissack Jr and Randy DuBurke (view source)
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|title=Best Shot in the West
|author=Patricia McKissack, Frederick L McKissack Jr and Randy DuBurke
|reviewer=John Lloyd
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|borrow=Yes
|isbn=9780811857499
|pages=136
|publisher=Chronicle Books
|date=February 2012
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|summary=A slightly worthy but interesting look at the real Wild West, with a distinctive graphic style.
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Well the fact he had several names in his life - Nat Love, Deadwood Dick and more - might not help. But certainly few people in Britain at least would have heard of him, and fewer still will recognise his place in history coincided pretty much with Queen Victoria's reign. While here we had everything the history books have left for us, out in the prairielands of America there was less to record what happened - until at least Nat Love published an autobiography late in life, and books like this vividly put his circumstances onto the printed page in a brand new fashion.
Nat Love apparently admonished himself for not being at the Battle of Little Bighorn. The real story of what happened there and elsewhere with the indigenous battles against the pioneers is in [[Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown]].
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