Guy Rocha, Reno Gazette, April 21, 2001

Comment from Ron James: “Guy abhorred the folkloric process that wove tentacles around the historical subjects of the West. His brand of “myth busting” became the sole reason behind his writing, but it discredited an essential aspect of what the West was – and is – all about, namely, the stories. Richard Dorson coined the term “fakelore” in 1950, and it was subsequently weaponized to destroy this part of western culture. Folklorists generally set aside Dorson’s term as no longer useful, but Guy never received that memo. I take up the Bulette story in my forthcoming book, Monumental Lies: Early Nevada Folklore of the Wild West, and I treat her metamorphosis into a folk heroine in my brief article: https://www.academia.edu/44495705/Sex_Murder_and_the_Myth_of_the_Wild_West_How_a_Soiled_Dove_Earned_a_Heart_of