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Imagining Tombstone : The Town Too Tough to Die /
When prospector "Ed" Schieffelin set out from Fort Huachuca in 1877 in search of silver, skeptics told him all he'd find would be his own tombstone. What he did discover, of course, was one of the richest veins of silver in the West-a strike he wryly called Tombstone. Briefly a boomto...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the Tombstone mystique
- Making history
- Preservation and performance
- The Earp legend in film
- The global mythic west
- Historians' gunfight
- Epilogue: vigilantism and the border.