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""This is a well-written and engaging story about art imitating life and life imitating art in the later part of the silent period of American filmmaking. The story cuts back and forth between Starr's 'real' and 'reel' lives. Archuleta's book is highly readable and appropriate for a general audience, but it is also useful to specialists in the field of cinema history, US mass culture in the early twentieth century, and the depiction of Native Americans in popular culture. It is creative and thoroughly researched, citing extensive primary and secondary resources.""--Andrew Brodie Smith, author of Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood ""Archuleta presents a different look at Starr's abilities and performance while an actor. Starr's criminal career is fully covered. The author presents Starr's story quite well; his life unfolds smoothly and advances to the next step with ease.""--Mike Tower, author of The Outlaw Statesman: The Life and Times of Fred Tecumseh Waite ""A fascinating and well-researched account of a Western outlaw and moviemaker who lived on the border between myth and history."" --Richard Slotkin, author of A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America and Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860

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Mark Archuleta is an Emmy-winning screenwriter, journalist, and performer. A fifth-generation Coloradoan of Spanish Basque descent, he grew up steeped in the history of the American West and the colorful characters who inhabited it. Archuleta loves exploring how historical fact is refracted through the prism of film and television. He lives in Green Valley, California.

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