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Dragging Wyatt Earp : a personal history of Dodge City / Robert Rebein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (x, 225 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0804040524
  • 9780804040525
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dragging Wyatt Earp.DDC classification:
  • 978.1/76 23
LOC classification:
  • F689.D64 R43 2013
Online resources:
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.
Summary: In this book, an essayist 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, the writer contrasts his hometown's Old West heritage with a New West reality that includes salvage yards, beefpacking plants, and bored teenagers cruising up and down Wyatt Earp Boulevard. Along the way, the author covers a vast expanse of place and time and revisits a number of Western myths, including those surrounding Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, the Cheyenne chief Black Kettle, George Armstrong Custer, and - of course - Wyatt Earp himself. The writer rides a bronc in a rodeo, spends a day as a pen rider at a local feedlot, and attempts to "buck the tiger" at Dodge City's Boot Hill Casino and Resort. This book is an exciting entry in what is sometimes called the nonfiction of place.
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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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In this book, an essayist 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, the writer contrasts his hometown's Old West heritage with a New West reality that includes salvage yards, beefpacking plants, and bored teenagers cruising up and down Wyatt Earp Boulevard. Along the way, the author covers a vast expanse of place and time and revisits a number of Western myths, including those surrounding Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, the Cheyenne chief Black Kettle, George Armstrong Custer, and - of course - Wyatt Earp himself. The writer rides a bronc in a rodeo, spends a day as a pen rider at a local feedlot, and attempts to "buck the tiger" at Dodge City's Boot Hill Casino and Resort. This book is an exciting entry in what is sometimes called the nonfiction of place.

English.

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