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1 online resource |
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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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Print version record. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Rebein, Robert, 1964- -- Homes and haunts -- Kansas -- Dodge City.
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Rebein, Robert, 1964- -- Childhood and youth.
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Dodge City (Kan.) -- Social life and customs.
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Dodge City (Kan.) -- History.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rebein, Robert, 1964- Dragging Wyatt Earp. 9780804011426 0804011427 (DLC) 2012044512 |
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0804040524 (electronic bk.) |
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9780804040525 (electronic bk.) |
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