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Medicine in the Old West
A History, 1850-1900
E-bok, 2010
294 kr
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The healing arts as practiced in the Old West often meant the difference between life and death for American pioneers. Whether the challenge was sickness, an Indian arrow, a gunshot wound, or a fall from a horse, a pioneer in the western territories required care for medical emergencies, but often …
Entertainment in the Old West
Theater, Music, Circuses, Medicine Shows, Prizefighting and Other Popular Amusements
E-bok, 2014
294 kr
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Miners, loggers, railroad men, and others flooded into the American West after the discovery of gold in 1848, and entertainers seeking to fill the demand for distraction from the workers'' daily toil soon followed. Actors, actresses and traveling troupes crisscrossed the American frontier, …
Old West in Fact and Film
History Versus Hollywood
E-bok, 2012
394 kr
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For many years, movie audiences have carried on a love affair with the American West, believing Westerns are escapist entertainment of the best kind, harkening back to the days of the frontier. This work compares the reality of the Old West to its portrayal in movies, taking an historical approach …
Alcohol and Opium in the Old West
Use, Abuse and Influence
E-bok, 2013
294 kr
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This book explores the role and influence of drink and drugs (primarily opium) in the Old West, which for this book is considered to be America west of the Mississippi from the California gold rush of the 1840s to the closing of the Western Frontier in roughly 1900. This period was the first time …
Creation of the Cowboy Hero
Fiction, Film and Fact
E-bok, 2014
319 kr
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As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by …
Spanish Influence on the Old Southwest
A Collision of Cultures
E-bok, 2015
345 kr
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The traditional narrative of the American West tells of a frontier settled by pioneers emigrating from the east to the Pacific coast. Yet Spanish conquistadors arrived in Central America 150 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. With them came missionaries who tried to convert the …
Crime, Justice and Retribution in the American West, 1850-1900
E-bok, 2017
374 kr
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Western movies are full of images of swaggering outlaws brought to justice by valiant lawmen shooting them down in daring gunfights before riding off into the sunset. In reality it would not have happened that way. Real lawmen did not simply walk away from a gunfight--they had to face the legal …
Age of Dimes and Pulps
A History of Sensationalist Literature, 1830-1960
E-bok, 2018
417 kr
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From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided thrilling escapism for the masses. Cranking out formulaic stories of melodrama, crime and mild erotica--often by uncredited authors focused more on volume than …
Healing Waters
A History of Victorian Spas
E-bok, 2019
441 kr
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Modern spas are wellness resorts that offer beauty treatments, massages and complementary therapies. Victorian spas were sanitariums, providing "water cure" treatments supplemented by massage, vibration, electricity and radioactivity. Rooted in the palliative health reforms of the early 19th …
Landscapes of Western Movies
A History of Filming on Location, 1900-1970
E-bok, 2020
385 kr
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Western films have often been tributes to place and setting, with the magnificent backdrops mirroring the wildness of the narratives. As the splendid outdoor scenery of Westerns could not be found on a studio back lot or on a Hollywood sound stage, the movies have been filmed in the wide open …
Electric Corset and Other Victorian Miracles
Medical Devices and Treatments from the Golden Age of Quackery
E-bok, 2021
294 kr
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Through the Victorian and Edwardian eras, various health movements emerged in the transition to the modern age of scientific medicine. Strange medical devices and quack cures were pushed, often using crude remedies based on simplistic beliefs and the placebo effect. Currently, some of these …
Prohibition and Bootlegging in the American West
E-bok, 2022
374 kr
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Prohibition was imposed by eager temperance movements organizers who sought to shape public behavior through alcoholic beverage control in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The success of reformers'' efforts resulted in National Prohibition in America from 1920 to 1933, but it also resulted in a …
Sensational News
The Rise of Lurid Journalism in America, 1830-1930
E-bok, 2024
382 kr
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Sensationalistic stories have attracted readers for as long as reading has been a popular form of entertainment. Readers have been frightened, revolted, yet fascinated by stories of death, thievery, kidnapping, murder, rape, scandal, love triangles, and colorful miscreants. Starting in the 1830s …
Death and Danger on the Western Frontier
E-bok, 2025
441 kr
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In modern times, men and women in America expect to lead long and fruitful lives. In the second half of the nineteenth century in the Old West, contrary to what the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia and popular media suggest, daily existence was harsh and filled with perils that dimmed the outlook …
