The Myth of Western Outlaw Johnny Ringo

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This paper analyzes the mythic hero, Johnny Ringo, defined as such because Western frontier society admired perceived gunfighter traits such as courage, self-reliance, ambition and individualism. According to the paper, the real man possessed these traits to a certain extent, but he was not the heroic figure many of his contemporaries and twentieth-century movies and TV Westerns made him out to be. Like Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and other gunfighters of the Old West, he became a symbolic hero of a Western frontier culture that never really existed. It further reports that the true story of Johnny Ringo can be ascertained by examining Internet websites such as Johnny Ringo.com, where the factual history of his life is available.

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