Download or read book Cowboy Hall of Fame Dodge City written by Boot Hill Museum, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Cowboy Hall of Fame written by National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center and published by . This book was released on 1988* with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cattleman written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 2120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preserving Western History written by Andrew Gulliford and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of essays on public history in the American West.
Download or read book The National Cowboy Western Heritage Museum written by Bobby D. Weaver and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1965, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, as it was then named, owned a mere handful of artifacts. In fact, the Oklahoma City institution was forced to borrow materials in order to mount exhibitions to support its inaugural events. From that modest beginning, the center, now known as the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, has grown into perhaps the world’s most respected repository for the study and understanding of the diverse cultures of the American West. But, as Bobby D. Weaver demonstrates in this no-holds-barred history, the path from those humble origins to the esteemed position the museum occupies today led through some rough-and-tumble times, including a period of receivership. The autocratic style of the founding director, coupled with certain early less-than-ethical practices, forced the museum into what Weaver delicately terms “a legal tangle” that required a complete organizational and financial overhaul. With renewed professional leadership and the steadfast support of dedicated patrons and sponsors, the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum has developed and changed along with evolving understandings of the culture it was founded to celebrate. What was once a shrine to a particular manifestation of American frontier life has transformed into a world-class art and historical museum that represents the broad sweep of the American West—both lived and imagined—with its full range of social, ethnic, and economic diversity. As Weaver relates, today’s institution is well poised for the future as it furthers its mission of preserving and interpreting the heritage of a vital American region and its lifeways.
Download or read book Cowboy Hall of Fame Guide Book written by National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Honorees Elected to the Hall of Fame of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center written by National Cowboy Hall of Fame and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Cowboy Hall of Fame written by National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tombstone Deadwood and Dodge City written by Kevin Britz and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Shootin’—Lynchin’—Hangin’,” announces the advertisement for Tombstone’s Helldorado Days festival. Dodge City’s Boot Hill Cemetery sports an “authentic hangman’s tree.” Not to be outdone, Deadwood’s Days of ’76 celebration promises “miners, cowboys, Indians, cavalry, bars, dance halls and gambling dens.” The Wild West may be long gone, but its legend lives on in Tombstone, Arizona; Deadwood, South Dakota; and Dodge City, Kansas. In Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City, Kevin Britz and Roger L. Nichols conduct a tour of these iconic towns, revealing how over time they became repositories of western America’s defining myth. Beginning with the founding of the communities in the 1860s and 1870s, this book traces the circumstances, conversations, and clashes that shaped the settlements over the course of a century. Drawing extensively on literature, newspapers, magazines, municipal reports, political correspondence, and films and television, the authors show how Hollywood and popular novels, as well as major historical events such as the Great Depression and both world wars, shaped public memories of these three towns. Along the way, Britz and Nichols document the forces—from business interests to political struggles—that influenced dreams and decisions in Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City. After the so-called rowdy times of the open frontier had passed, town promoters tried to sell these towns by remaking their reputations as peaceful, law-abiding communities. Hard times made boosters think again, however, and they turned back to their communities’ rowdy pasts to sell the towns as exemplars of the western frontier. An exploration of the changing times that led these towns to be marketed as reflections of the Old West, Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City opens an illuminating new perspective on the crafting and marketing of America’s mythic self-image.
Download or read book National Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Western Heritage Center written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Posts contact information via mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail. Discusses the exhibitions, admissions, the hours of operation, membership information, and the Sam Noble Special Events Center. Contains a schedule of events.
Download or read book Dodge City the Cowboy Capital written by Robert Marr Wright and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the founders of Dodge City." -Wild Bill and His Era, 1933 "A true picture of life among buffalo-hunters, scouts, gamblers, stockmen." -Warren King Moorehead, 1914 "Knew Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Luke Short, the Seven Old Timers, the badmen, and the Cowboy Band, and he shows you photographs." -Month at Goodspeed's 1938 "He fought Indians, he hunted buffalo, he raised wheat, he was a merchant, a stock farmer, his kind are passing from among us." -Report of William Connelley, 1916 "Wright, of Dodge City, is the historian of the Trail in this county, and as he has lived on the Trail and traveled it." -The Story of the Marking of the Santa Fe Trail 1915 In its early days Dodge City, a rendezvous of the wide-wandering bull-whacker, buffalo-hunter, cowboy, and desperado, as well as the home of the plain pioneer citizens who built so much of the region, was a perfect paradise for gamblers, cut-throats, and "fast women." These rough characters guarded their reputations for honesty with a pair of Colt's revolvers in their belts and wore their pants in their boots, and when they passed on, did so generally with their boots on. With all that has been said about Dodge City no true account of conditions as they were in the early days was accessible until publication of Robert Wright's 1911 book "Dodge City, the Cowboy Capital." The author was especially well qualified to write a history of the "wicked city of the plains" since he had lived on the frontier for many years previous to the founding of the city and lived in the city from its opening. He had all the experience gleaned as a plainsman, explorer, scout, trader and as mayor of the town. His is a most interesting narrative of early days, as well as a very valuable contribution to western history. Prior to founding Dodge City in 1868, at 16 years old Wright came West to Missouri. In 1859 he made the first of six overland trips across the plains to Denver. He was later appointed post trader at Fort Dodge in 1867, when Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and Prairie Apache abounded there. Wright was acquainted with old-school Western sheriff and gunfighter Bat Masterson, of whom he said, "Bat is a gentleman by instinct. He is a man of pleasant manners, good address and mild disposition, until aroused, and then, for God's sake, look out!"
Download or read book National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center written by National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Winchester Western Extend an Invitation written by National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bull in the Lobby written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keepsake booklet; includes four blank pages to gather names and addresses of people who worked together on "The Cowboy Hall of Fame" (that is, the Boot Hilll Museum) in Dodge CIty, Kansas in 1955.
Download or read book Mount Up and Head for the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center Oklahoma City Oklahoma written by National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center and published by . This book was released on with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
