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We revisit host Peter O’Dowd’s June 2025 conversation with journalist and author Bryan Burrough about his book “The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild” which looks at the culture that spawned gunfighting in America post Civil War. It’s now out in paperback.
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