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The Wild East

- Gunfights, Massacres and Race Riots Far From America's Frontier
Af: Ian Hernon Engelsk Paperback

The Wild East

- Gunfights, Massacres and Race Riots Far From America's Frontier
Af: Ian Hernon Engelsk Paperback
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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.In the era of the post-Civil War Wild West, it can be argued that the most dangerous place to be was in the East. It was the inevitably violent outcome of massive social upheaval – race wars with lynchings and massacres, heavily armed confrontation between infant trade unionism and the forces of capitalism, murderous feuds between corrupt lawmen and the early Mafia. These were confrontations in which the US government bombed and marginalised their own citizens, the law was twisted for private ends, and ‘fake news’ became the norm.
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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.In the era of the post-Civil War Wild West, it can be argued that the most dangerous place to be was in the East. It was the inevitably violent outcome of massive social upheaval – race wars with lynchings and massacres, heavily armed confrontation between infant trade unionism and the forces of capitalism, murderous feuds between corrupt lawmen and the early Mafia. These were confrontations in which the US government bombed and marginalised their own citizens, the law was twisted for private ends, and ‘fake news’ became the norm.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9781398109100
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 139810910X
Kategori: United States of America, USA
Udg. Dato: 15 mar 2022
Længde: 33mm
Bredde: 198mm
Højde: 131mm
Forlag: Amberley Publishing
Oplagsdato: 15 mar 2022
Forfatter(e): Ian Hernon
Forfatter(e) Ian Hernon

Kategori United States of America, USA

ISBN-13 9781398109100

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 320

Udgave

Længde 33mm

Bredde 198mm

Højde 131mm

Udg. Dato 15 mar 2022

Oplagsdato 15 mar 2022

Forlag Amberley Publishing

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