Shootin' - Lynchin' - Hangin',"" announces the advertisement for
Tombstone's Helldorado Days festival. Dodge City's Boot Hill
Cemetery sports an ""authentic hangman's tree."" Not to be outdone,
Deadwood's Days of '76 celebration promises ""miners, cowboys,
Indians, cavalry, bars, dance halls and gambling dens."" The Wild
West may be long gone, but its legend lives on in Tombstone,
Arizona; Deadwood, South Dakota; and Dodge City, Kansas. In
Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City, Kevin Britz and Roger L.
Nichols conduct a tour of these iconic towns, revealing how over
time they became repositories of western America's defining myth.
Beginning with the founding of the communities in the 1860s and
1870s, this book traces the circumstances, conversations, and
clashes that shaped the settlements over the course of a century.
Drawing extensively on literature, newspapers, magazines, municipal
reports, political correspondence, and films and television, the
authors show how Hollywood and popular novels, as well as major
historical events such as the Great Depression and both world wars,
shaped public memories of these three towns. Along the way, Britz
and Nichols document the forces - from business interests to
political struggles - that influenced dreams and decisions in
Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City. After the so-called rowdy
times of the open frontier had passed, town promoters tried to sell
these towns by remaking their reputations as peaceful, law-abiding
communities. Hard times made boosters think again, however, and
they turned back to their communities' rowdy pasts to sell the
towns as exemplars of the western frontier. An exploration of the
changing times that led these towns to be marketed as reflections
of the Old West, Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City opens an
illuminating new perspective on the crafting and marketing of
America's mythic self-image.
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