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June 15, 2022

“Bourke’s telling of the history of Cumberland Island evolves naturally from the discoveries, during her and her daughter’s annual, adventurous visits, of the remnants of its glory days.”

~ Cynthia Williams, writer and independent journalist

Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past

By Tore C. Olsson
St. Martin's Press
288 pages
$30

“I recommend Red Dead’s History unreservedly not only to fans of the iconic video game, but also to anyone who wants to understand the riotousness — from Wild West gunslingers to Jim Crow to lynching — that darkened our past, and which continues to influence our culture. Olsson’s prose is graceful, his analysis profound. This is history at its most accessible and exciting.”

~Peter Cozzens, award-winning author of A Brutal Reckoning

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