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The Wild East - Gunfights, Massacres and Race Riots Far From America's Frontier (Paperback)
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The Wild East - Gunfights, Massacres and Race Riots Far From America's Frontier (Paperback)
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The scene was set for a classic Western showdown. On a dusty main
street, a sheriff backed by townspeople faced down a gang of
heavily armed hired gunslingers. Tension rose, hard words were
exchanged, and someone drew first. A few minutes later 10 men were
dead or dying, and several more suffered gunshot wounds. The hired
guns, those that remained on their feet that is, fled. But this was
not a shoot-out in the Wild West of Wyoming or Montana or South
Dakota in the 1880s, or a Hollywood re-imagining of such an event.
This was not Dodge City or Abilene. This was the West Virginia
mining town of Matewan in 1920. By contrast the more celebrated
gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone lasted 30 seconds and left
three dead. And Matewan was not an aberration. In the era of the
post-Civil War Wild West, it can be argued that the most dangerous
place to be was in the East. It was the inevitably violent outcome
of massive social upheaval - race wars with lynchings and
massacres, heavily armed confrontation between infant trade
unionism and the forces of capitalism, murderous feuds between
corrupt lawmen and the early Mafia. These were confrontations in
which the US government bombed and marginalised their own citizens,
the law was twisted for private ends, and 'fake news' became the
norm.
General
Imprint: |
Amberley Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
March 2022 |
Authors: |
Ian Hernon
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-398-10910-0 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-398-10910-X |
Barcode: |
9781398109100 |
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