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Arkansas
Art Burton
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Baridi Nkokheli
Bass Reeves
Belle Starr
Buffalo Bill Cody
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Cherokee
Choctaw
Confederates in the attic
cultural heritage tourism
Culture and tourism
Daniel Maher
Dawes Severalty Act
deindustrialization
Deputy US Marshals
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Fort Gibson
Fort Smith
Frederick Jackson Turner
frontier
Frontier and pioneer life
Gaming Regulatory
globalization
hegemony
Heritage tourism
Historiography
imagineering otherness
Indian Reorganization Act
Judge Isaac C. Parker
Judith Butler
Kathleen Duval
Laura Zeigler
Logan Roots
Lone Ranger
Marita Sturken
Miss Laura's Visitor Center
Miss Laura’s Visitor Center
Mythic Frontiers
National Park Service
neoliberalism
profit
Reenactment Guild of America
removal
Robert Frazer
True Grit
United States
Wild West
Zeke Proctor
Product details
- ISBN 9780813062532
- Weight: 549g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Apr 2016
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The history of the Wild West has long been fictionalized in novels, films, and television shows. Catering to these popular representations, towns across America have created tourist sites connecting such tales with historical monuments. Yet these attractions stray from known histories in favor of the embellished past visitors expect to see.
In Mythic Frontiers, Daniel Maher illustrates how aggrandized versions of the past have been used to turn a profit. Examining the imagined frontier town of Fort Smith, Arkansas, Maher warns that disconnecting cultural heritage tourism from history minimizes the devastating consequences of imperialism, racism, and sexism and relegitimizes the privilege bestowed upon white men.
In Mythic Frontiers, Daniel Maher illustrates how aggrandized versions of the past have been used to turn a profit. Examining the imagined frontier town of Fort Smith, Arkansas, Maher warns that disconnecting cultural heritage tourism from history minimizes the devastating consequences of imperialism, racism, and sexism and relegitimizes the privilege bestowed upon white men.
Daniel R. Maher is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas–Fort Smith, USA.
