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Author Dykstra, Robert R., 1930- author.

Title Dodge City and the birth of the wild west / Robert R. Dykstra and Jo Ann Manfra.

Publication Info. Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2017]

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  978.176 D991d 2017    ---  Available
 Axe Kansas Collection  978.176 D991d 2017 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
 Eureka Non-Fiction  978.176 Dyk    ---  Available
Description 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-222) and index.
Contents Introduction: gettin' outta Dodge -- Pioneers -- Year of living dangerously -- Deadly prose -- Case histories -- Circle Dot cowboys -- Dodge City's sensations -- End games -- Contesting Boot Hill -- Epilogue: homicide, moral discourse, cultural identity.
Summary "Raised on Gunsmoke, Bat Masterson, and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, we know what it means to get outta Dodge - to make a hasty escape from a dangerous place, like the Dodge City of Wild West lore. But why, of all the notorious, violent cities of old, did Dodge win this distinction? And what does this tenacious cultural metaphor have to do with the real Dodge City? In a book as much about the making of cultural myths as it is about Dodge City itself, authors Robert Dykstra and Jo Ann Manfra take us back into the history of Dodge to trace the growth of the city and its legend side-by-side. An exploration of murder statistics, court cases, and contemporary accounts reveals the historical Dodge to be neither as violent nor as lawless as legend has it - but every bit as intriguing. In a style that captures the charm and chicanery of storytelling in the Old West, Dodge City and the Birth of the Wild West finds a culprit in a local attorney, Harry Gryden, who fed sensational accounts to the national media during the so-called Dodge City War of 1883. Once launched, the legend leads the authors through the cultural landscape of twentieth-century America, as Dodge City became a useful metaphor in more and more television series and movies. Meanwhile, back in the actual Dodge, struggling on a lost frontier, a mirror image of the mythical city began to emerge, as residents increasingly embraced tourism as an economic necessity. Dodge City and the Birth of the Wild West maps a metaphor for belligerent individualism and social freedom through the cultural imagination, from a historical starting point to its mythical reflection. In this, the book restores both the reality of Dodge and its legend to their rightful place in the continuum of American culture."--Amazon.com.
Subject Dodge City (Kan.) -- History -- 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas -- Dodge City.
Violence -- Kansas -- Dodge City -- History -- 19th century.
HISTORY -- Social History.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Frontier and pioneer life. (OCoLC)fst00935370
Violence. (OCoLC)fst01167224
Kansas -- Dodge City. (OCoLC)fst01217318
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Manfra, Jo Ann, author.
Other Form: Online version: Dykstra, Robert R., 1930- Dodge City and the birth of the wild west. Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2017] 9780700624775 (OCoLC)1001326830
ISBN 9780700624751 (hardcover alkaline paper)
0700624759 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780700624768 (paperback alkaline paper)
0700624767 (paperback alkaline paper)
9780700624775 (electronic book)

 
    
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