Gunsmoke in Kansas
Author | : H. J. Watson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Western stories |
ISBN | : 9780803487192 |
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Author | : H. J. Watson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Western stories |
ISBN | : 9780803487192 |
Author | : Myra Vanderpool Gormley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Police |
ISBN | : 9780962274657 |
Author | : Ben Costello |
Publisher | : Five Star Publishing (MI) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Gunsmoke (Television program) |
ISBN | : 9781589850149 |
A celebration of the long-running western television program includes production histories, cast information, interviews, summaries of each episode, and numerous photographs.
Author | : Charles G. Worman |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780826335937 |
The many roles played by guns in the old West with personal accounts by many early settlers and hundreds of photos.
Author | : Tom Clavin |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2017-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 146688262X |
The instant New York Times bestseller! Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City’s streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent and turbulent town in the West. Enter Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Young and largely self-trained men, the lawmen led the effort that established frontier justice and the rule of law in the American West, and did it in the wickedest place in the United States. When they moved on, Wyatt to Tombstone and Bat to Colorado, a tamed Dodge was left in the hands of Jim Masterson. But before long Wyatt and Bat, each having had a lawman brother killed, returned to that threatened western Kansas town to team up to restore order again in what became known as the Dodge City War before riding off into the sunset. #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin's Dodge City tells the true story of their friendship, romances, gunfights, and adventures, along with the remarkable cast of characters they encountered along the way (including Wild Bill Hickock, Jesse James, Doc Holliday, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, and Theodore Roosevelt) that has gone largely untold—lost in the haze of Hollywood films and western fiction, until now.
Author | : Robert Rebein |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2013-03-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0804040524 |
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 West reality that includes salvage yards, beefpacking plants, and bored teenagers cruising up and down Wyatt Earp Boulevard. Along the way, Rebein 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. Rebein 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 new Boot Hill Casino and Resort. Funny and incisive, Dragging Wyatt Earp is an exciting new entry in what is sometimes called the nonfiction of place. It is a must- read for anyone interested in Western history, contemporary memoir, or the collision of Old and New West on the High Plains of Kansas.
Author | : Joseph A. West |
Publisher | : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781597225779 |
Notorious killer, Ed Flynn, saved Marshal Dillon's life once, and now Matt is obliged with Doc Holliday as an unlikely ally to protect him against the Feeney gang.
Author | : Robert R. Dykstra |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2017-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0700624767 |
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.
Author | : Arthur E. Hertzler |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1970-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803257177 |
'An honest and objective self-record that puts on paper one of the most beloved traditions of the past and shows that the fundamental virtues for which the country doctor was cherished have survived into the scientific present, while many not-so-good aspects of sentimental old days have fortunately been left behind.'---Books