Mythic frontiers : remembering, forgetting, and profiting with cultural heritage tourism

Mythic frontiers : remembering, forgetting, and profiting with cultural heritage tourism / Daniel R. Maher ; foreword by Paul A. Shackel.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Maher, Daniel R. (Author)
Other Authors:	Shackel, Paul A. (writer of foreword.)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Series:	Cultural heritage studies.
Subjects:	Heritage tourism > Arkansas > Fort Smith. Culture and tourism > Arkansas > Fort Smith. Tourism > Arkansas > Fort Smith. Frontier and pioneer life > Arkansas > Fort Smith. HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology. Culture and tourism Frontier and pioneer life Heritage tourism Historiography Tourism Fort Smith (Ark.) > Historiography. Arkansas > Fort Smith
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Description
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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-271) and index.
ISBN:	9780813055992 0813055997
Source of Description, Etc. Note:	Print version record.