Mythic Frontiers : Remembering, Forgetting, and Profiting with Cultural Heritage Tourism.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Significance of the Frontier Complex in American History -- 2. The Frontier Complex in Fort Smith, Arkansas -- 3. The Peacekeeper's Violence -- 4. The Hanging Judge's Injustices -- 5. The Invincible Marshal's Oppression -- 6. The Hello Bordello and Brave Men Matrix -- 7. Performing "Frontier in the Attic" -- 8. Doubling Down on the Wager of Frontier Tourism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

In Mythic Frontiers, Daniel Maher illustrates how aggrandized versions of the past, especially those of the "American frontier," have been used to turn a profit. These imagined historical sites have effectively silenced the violent, oppressive, colonizing forces of manifest destiny and elevated principal architects of it to mythic heights.

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