Dragging Wyatt Earp : A Personal History of Dodge City /

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"In Dragging Wyatt Earp essayist Robert Rebein explores what it means to grow up in, leave, and ultimately return to the iconic Western town of Dodge City, Kansas. In chapters ranging from memoir to reportage to revisionist history, Rebein contrasts his hometown?s Old West heritage with a New W...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rebein, Robert, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rebein, Robert, > 1964-
Rebein, Robert, > 1964- > Childhood and youth.
Rebein, Robert, > 1964- > Homes and haunts > Kansas > Dodge City.
Manners and customs.
Homes.
Kansas > Dodge City.
Dodge City (Kan.) > History.
Dodge City (Kan.) > Social life and customs.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Return to Dodge City
  • The town
  • House on wheels
  • In the land of crashed cars and junkyard dogs
  • The identity factory
  • Dragging Wyatt Earp
  • The country
  • The greatest game country on earth
  • Sisyphus of the plains
  • A most romantic spot
  • The search for quivira
  • Of horses, cattle, and men
  • Horse latitudes
  • Wild horses
  • Feedlot cowboy
  • How to ride a bronc
  • Epilogue: The casino.

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