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Death in Dodge City

Author : J.R. Roberts
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645407737

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GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT DEATH IN DODGE CITY A Gunsmith Giant Edition The greatest gunfighters of the Old West band together for justice! When it comes to loyalty, The Gunsmith is second to none. So when his longtime friend Luke Short is cheated out of his livelihood, threatened with violence, and run out of Dodge City, Clint rides into action. The tyrannical new mayor of Dodge is the man responsible, and his own brand of "law and order" holds the town in a death grip. His weapons—the law, and a lightning-quick hired gun who's just itching to take out The Gunsmith! Allied with Clint, however, are the renowned lawmen Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Together, along with a select group of Short's friends, these legends of the West are going to set things right for their friend, and clean up Dodge City once and for all!

Death in Dodge City

Author : Roberts, JR.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1311809813

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When it comes to loyalty, The Gunsmith is second to none. So when his longtime friend Luke Short is cheated out of his livelihood, threatened with violence and run out of Dodge City, Clint rides into action. The tyrannical new mayor of Dodge is the man responsible, and his own brand of law and order holds the town in a death grip. His weapons 0́3 the law, and a lightning-quick hired gun who's just itching to take out The Gunsmith!Allied with Clint, however, are the renowned lawmen Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Together, along with a select group of Short's friends, these legends of the west are going to set things right for their friend, and clean up Dodge City once and for all!

Dodge City and the Birth of the Wild West

Author : Robert R. Dykstra,Jo Ann Manfra
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700624768

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Dodge City and the Birth of the Wild West by Robert R. Dykstra,Jo Ann Manfra Pdf

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.

Dodge City

Author : Tom Clavin
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466882621

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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.

Dodge City

Author : George Laughead Jr,George Laughead
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738552255

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Dodge City by George Laughead Jr,George Laughead Pdf

The founding of the American West can be studied in no better place than Dodge City and Ford County. Whether it is frontier forts, trails and cow towns, or farms and ranches, Ford County holds original examples. The best-known Wild West lawmen and gunfighters--Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday--gained their fame in Dodge City. Its history began with Francisco Vásquez de Coronado crossing the Arkansas River in 1541, leading to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 (Dodge City is on the 100th meridian border) and the 1821 opening of the Santa Fe Trail by William Becknell. Fort Dodge, built in 1865, still stands as a reminder of the millions of people who passed through Dodge City. The Santa Fe Railroad arrived in 1872, and the buffalo hunters and the Great Western Cattle Trail grew around Dodge City. The pioneer era did not end in the 1800s but continued through the 1930s dust bowl and beyond--demanding the same tough work, cooperation, and high ethics that made surviving possible in the "Great Western Desert."

Lethal Imagination

Author : Michael A. Bellesiles
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814712955

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Examining the role of violence in America's past, this collection of essays explores its history and development from slave patrols in the colonial South to gun ownership in the 20th century. The contributors focus not only on individual acts such as domestic violence, murder, duelling, frontier vigilantism and rape, but also on group and state-led acts such as lynchings, slave uprisings, the establishment of rifle clubs, legal sanctions of heterosexual aggression, and invasive medical experiments on women's bodies.

Dodge City

Author : Stanley Vestal
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803296177

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In the 1870s and 1880s, Dodge City was known as the wickedest in the American West. But gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort finally lost their bloody battle with vigilantes, troopers, railroad men and heroic peace officers. "(Stanley) Vestal astutely plays it soft and quiet, presenting the documented facts, leaving his reader free to make of them what he will". 8 photos.

Shootout in Dodge City

Author : Cameron Judd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743458139

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Shootout in Dodge City by Cameron Judd Pdf

BROTHERS IN ARMS Joseph and Liam Carrigan may have the same strong Irish blood running in their veins, but the similarity ends there. Where Joseph is level-headed and forthright, Liam is temperamental and roguish. After fighting on opposing sides in the Civil War, they reunite to head west in search of a better life and an enigmatic, long-lost uncle who disappeared years earlier. But their journey will not be an easy one. Not only must they contend with the dangers of both man and nature on the untamed frontier, but also with the never-ending sibling rivalry that once tore them apart -- and a menacing, shadowy figure who's on their trail, marking the Carrigan brothers' every move, waiting for the moment to strike.... From Cameron Judd, the Spur Award­nominated author of The Overmountain Men and Crockett of Tennessee, comes a new series steeped in the traditions of the Old West: courage, honor, and nonstop adventure. MORE THAN ONE MILLION CAMERON JUDD TITLES IN PRINT!

Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 6

Author : Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781312620308

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Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 6 by Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch Pdf

Volume 6 of 8, 3337 to 4042. A genealogical compilation of the descendants of John Jacob Rector and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Fischbach. Married in 1711 in Trupbach, Germany, the couple immigrated to the Germanna Colony in Virginia in 1714. Eight volumes document the lives of over 45,000 individuals.

Why the West was Wild

Author : Nyle H. Miller,Joseph W. Snell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0806135263

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Why the West was Wild by Nyle H. Miller,Joseph W. Snell Pdf

"... collection of material" from "newspapers, legal records, letters, and diaries, contemporary" sources. Includes material on "Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday, and such locales as Abilene, Wichita, Caldwell, and Dodge City"--Back cover.

The Americas

Author : Trudy Ring,Noelle Watson,Paul Schellinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781134259304

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The Americas by Trudy Ring,Noelle Watson,Paul Schellinger Pdf

This five-volume set presents some 1,000 comprehensive and fully illustrated histories of the most famous sites in the world. Entries include location, description, and site details, and a 3,000- to 4,000-word essay that provides a full history of the site and its condition today. An annotated further reading list of books and articles about the site completes each entry. The geographically organized volumes include: * Volume 1: The Americas * [1-884964-00-1] * Volume 2: Northern Europe * [1-884964-01-X] * Volume 3: Southern Europe * [1-884964-02-8] * Volume 4: Middle East & Africa * [1-884964-03-6] * Volume 5: Asia & Oceania * [1-884964-04-4]

Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age

Author : Leonard C. Schlup,James Gilbert Ryan
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic reference sources
ISBN : 0765621061

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Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age by Leonard C. Schlup,James Gilbert Ryan Pdf

Covers all the people, events, movements, subjects, court cases, inventions, and more that defined the Gilded Age.

The Negro Cowboys

Author : Philip Durham
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1965-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803265603

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More than five thousand Negro cowboys joined the round-ups and served on the ranch crews in the cattleman era of the West. Lured by the open range, the chance for regular wages, and the opportunity to start new lives, they made vital contributions to the transformation of the West. They, their predecessors, and their successors rode on the long cattle drives, joined the cavalry, set up small businesses, fought on both sides of the law. Some of them became famous: Jim Beckwourth, the mountain man; Bill Pickett, king of the rodeo; Cherokee Bill, the most dangerous man in Indian Territory; and Nat Love, who styled himself "Deadwood Dick." They could hold their own with any creature, man or beast, that got in the way of a cattle drive. They worked hard, thought fast, and met or set the highest standards for cowboys and range riders.

Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City

Author : Kevin Britz,Roger L. Nichols
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806162041

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Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City by Kevin Britz,Roger L. Nichols Pdf

“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.

The Truth about Wyatt Earp

Author : Richard E. Erwin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595001279

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The Truth about Wyatt Earp by Richard E. Erwin Pdf

The Truth About Wyatt Earp is the result of extensive research done by the author, Richard E. Erwin. After retiring from his career as a Criminal Defense Lawyer, he took up the task of ferreting out the truth surrounding the life and times of Wyatt Earp. He presents here solid evidence, based on old newspaper accounts, public records, documents buried in museums, state and national archives and libraries and reports of other researchers, to substantiate his view of what he believes to be The Truth About Wyatt Earp. Did you know... That Wyatt Earp was once indicted for horse stealing (He was never convicted.)? That there were four witnesses who could have testified that Tom McLaury was armed at the commencement of the O.K. Corral fight? That both Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday spent more than two weeks in jail in the custody of John Behan while the hearing on the O.K. Corral shoot-out was going on? The truth comes out in this illuminating essay on one of the most fascinating characters in history.