The wild east : gunfights, massacres and race riots far from the American frontier
Hernon, Ian2019
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The scene was set for a classic Western showdown. On a dusty main street, a sheriff backed by townspeople faced down a gang of heavily armed hired gunslingers. Tension rose, hard words were exchanged, and someone drew first. A few minutes later 10 men were dead or dying, and several more suffered gunshot wounds. The hired guns, those that remained on their feet that is, fled. But this was not a shoot-out in the Wild West of Wyoming or Montana or South Dakota in the 1880s, or a Hollywood re-imagining of such an event. This was not Dodge City or Abilene. This was the West Virginia mining town of Matewan in 1920. By contrast the more celebrated gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone lasted 30 seconds and left three dead. And Matewan was not an aberration.
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Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley, 2019.
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320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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Includes QR code.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781445689272 (hbk)
Dewey class:
974
Language:
English
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BRN:
2771887
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