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The Laughing West
Humorous Western Fiction, Past and Present
By Charles L. Sonnichsen
Without humor, the American West would be a vast territory of arid clichés — stolid cowboys and fearless lawmen, or, in more modern visions, dastardly land developers and fanatical environmentalists — all of them as lifeless as an alkalai flat.