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In His Debut Novel, Blair Palmer Yoxall Rejects the Cowboys vs. Indians Western

The traditional western format has long featured the “Cowboys vs. Indians” archetype. These are often tales of good vs. evil, where a gun-slinging cowboy leaves a trail of dead, “savage” Indians in his wake as he traverses the wild American West. But what if the cowboys were also

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In His Debut Novel, Blair Palmer Yoxall Rejects the Cowboys vs. Indians WesternThe traditional western format has long featured the “Cowboys vs. Indians” archetype. These are often tales of good vs. evil, where a gun-slinging cowboy leaves a trail of dead, “savage” Indians in his wake as he traverses the wild American West. But what if the cowboys were also
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