by Dan Nieman
In the Old West, pop culture imitated a version of real life. Dime store novels wrote romantic accounts of the wild west. Later Buffalo Bill, who made his livelihood hunting buffalo for the railroads, gathered many of the characters he knew to make a second life as wild west performers. Years later, Josephine Earp told her and her husband’s stories to the early Hollywood movie producers, who kept the stories of the old west alive in popular western movies. These are not necessarily true depictions, but they created a story that people wanted to hear. Vincenzo Capone managed to do the exact opposite. He remade himself from an Italian immigrant to a real life western hero.
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In the Old West, pop culture imitated a version of real life. Dime store novels wrote romantic accounts of the wild west. Later Buffalo Bill, who made his livelihood hunting buffalo for the railroads, gathered many of the characters he knew to make a second life as wild west performers. Years later, Josephine Earp told her and her husband’s stories to the early Hollywood movie producers, who kept the stories of the old west alive in popular western movies. These are not necessarily true depictions, but they created a story that people wanted to hear. Vincenzo Capone managed to do the exact opposite. He remade himself from an Italian immigrant to a real life western hero.
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