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Date Added: July 04, 2008 07:52:02 AM

"This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." So goes the famous line from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance , said in reference to cowboys and the American mythology, a tradition of tall tales involving drinking and guns and larger than life characters that I'm sure held no little fascination for Hunter S. Thompson.

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