The term, Wild West, invokes an image of gunfighters in cow towns ready to shoot at the least provocation. The Not So Wild Wild West puts a damper on such a simplistic image by showing how people in the West of the late 1800s actually cooperated to a large extent in accomplishing what was needed to live and prosper apart from government control. For me, the first couple of chapters proved somewhat difficult to read since the authors used a number of economic concepts to explain their approach. I'm not an economist so it took me some time to reach a modicum of understanding. The book gives more balance to the popular image of the Old West, using statistics and applying free market analysis to reveal the American west as it really was. Old West afficianadoes should benefit from its contents.
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