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Mythic frontiers : remembering, forgetting, and profiting with cultural heritage tourism
- Title
- Mythic frontiers : remembering, forgetting, and profiting with cultural heritage tourism / Daniel R. Maher ; foreword by Paul A. Shackel.
- Author
- Maher, Daniel R.
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Shackel, Paul A.
- Description
- xvi, 294 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- This is a study of the creation of Fort Smith, Arkansas, an imagined Wild West town for tourists complete with Native Americans, nineteenth-century hangings, prostitutes, and bootleggers.
- Series Statement
- Cultural heritage studies
- Uniform Title
- Cultural heritage studies.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-271) and index.
- Contents
- The significance of the frontier complex in American history -- The frontier complex in Fort Smith, Arkansas -- The peacekeeper's violence -- The hanging judge's injustices -- The invincible marshal's oppression -- The hello bordello and brave men matrix -- Performing "Frontier in the attic" -- Doubling down on the wager of frontier tourism.
- Call Number
- ITVM (Fort Smith) 16-3566
- ISBN
- 9780813062532
- 0813062535
- LCCN
- 2015041910
- OCLC
- 930058906
- Author
- Maher, Daniel R., author.
- Title
- Mythic frontiers : remembering, forgetting, and profiting with cultural heritage tourism / Daniel R. Maher ; foreword by Paul A. Shackel.
- Publisher
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cultural heritage studiesCultural heritage studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-271) and index.
- Added Author
- Shackel, Paul A., writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- ITVM (Fort Smith) 16-3566