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

Publication Info.	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
	©2016

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Description	1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages) : illustrations.
	text file
Series	Cultural heritage studies
	Cultural heritage studies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-271) and index.
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.
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.
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Subject	Heritage tourism -- Arkansas -- Fort Smith.
	Heritage tourism.
	Arkansas -- Fort Smith.
	Culture and tourism -- Arkansas -- Fort Smith.
	Culture and tourism.
	Tourism -- Arkansas -- Fort Smith.
	Tourism.
	Frontier and pioneer life -- Arkansas -- Fort Smith.
	Frontier and pioneer life.
	Fort Smith (Ark.) -- Historiography.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Shackel, Paul A., writer of foreword.
Other Form:	Print version: 9780813062532 0813062535 (DLC) 2015041910 (OCoLC)930058906
ISBN	9780813055992 (electronic book)
	0813055997 (electronic book)
	9780813062532
	0813062535
Standard No.	40025949718