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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Table of 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.