We've got this thread for movies, videogames, and the Internet. I figure it's time to give literature it's due.
I'll start with: Jackals. Specifically, jackals in westerns. I have recently come across two titles, A Congregation of Jackals and The Hangman Feeds the Jackal, that are set in the "wild west" period of North America.
But jackals are not native to North America. Their presence in the narrative, whether literal or figurative, makes no sense. Native American legends would not speak of them. Cowboys, gunslingers, homesteaders, and stagecoach drivers would not be concerned about them.
There are three species of jackal, and even today none of them has a range that extends to the new world. Yet somehow, in two cases, an author and their editor have conspired to place them front and center in a story about the American West.
I'll start with: Jackals. Specifically, jackals in westerns. I have recently come across two titles, A Congregation of Jackals and The Hangman Feeds the Jackal, that are set in the "wild west" period of North America.
But jackals are not native to North America. Their presence in the narrative, whether literal or figurative, makes no sense. Native American legends would not speak of them. Cowboys, gunslingers, homesteaders, and stagecoach drivers would not be concerned about them.
There are three species of jackal, and even today none of them has a range that extends to the new world. Yet somehow, in two cases, an author and their editor have conspired to place them front and center in a story about the American West.
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