Dragging Wyatt Earp : a personal history of Dodge City / Robert Rebein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rebein, Robert, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dodge City (Kan.)--Social life and customs.

Dodge City (Kan.).

Dodge City (Kan.)--History.

Rebein, Robert, 1964---Homes and haunts--Kansas--Dodge City.

Rebein, Robert.

Rebein, Robert, 1964---Childhood and youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Kansas Notable Book, 2014

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804040525

0804040524

OCLC:

826855581