The Western Town

Author : Alex Lehnerer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783775736596
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Western Town written by Alex Lehnerer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western town of roughly 1860-90 exists in an ephemeral moment of American history ... these towns vanished entirely from the prairie by the end of the nineteenth century. Yet even today, everyone has visited these towns, since they survive in their abstract and distilled form through the plot-generating sets of Western movies ... a clichéd but consistent host of characteristics and characters ... 22 towns in the Wild West are the protagonists in this book, including famous places like El Paso, Rio Bravo, and Lahood - not as clichés, but as constructed reality. Detailed maps offer a previously non-existent overview of spatial contexts and form the basis for an intensive exploration of architecture and urban planning. The culture of the "city without a future" in the American West between 1860 and 1900 has been maintained in the films out of which it arises. This architectural analysis does not attempt to nostalgically reactivate the Western town, but uses it instead as a vehicle to critique contemporary phenomena in terms of infrastructure, the link between architecture and city, and the role of urban planning - after the Stranger persuaded the residents of Lago to paint the whole town red, he declared himself ready to protect it from the approaching gunmen. With maps of the towns from the following films (selected): 'A Fistful of Dollars' (1964), 'Buchanan Rides Alone' (1958), 'For a Few Dollars More' (1965), 'Fort Apache' (1948).

Author : Edmund Vincent Gillon
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486237362
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cut and Assemble a Western Frontier Town written by Edmund Vincent Gillon and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1978-08-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreate the stirring days of the Old West with this authentically detailed replica of a 19th-century western town. The architectural details (false fronts, overhanging balconies, wooden ornamentation, etc.) are all charactersistic of western wood-frame buildings circa 1860-1880. A few of the models are in fact accurate copies of specific documented structures.

Author : J. Anthony Lukas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439128103
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Trouble written by J. Anthony Lukas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged President Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the politics and passions of an entire nation at century's turn. After Idaho's former governor is blown up by a bomb at his garden gate at Christmastime 1905, America's most celebrated detective, Pinkerton James McParland, takes over the investigation. His daringly executed plan to kidnap the radical union leader "Big Bill" Haywood from Colorado to stand trial in Idaho sets the stage for a memorable courtroom confrontation between the flamboyant prosecutor, progressive senator William Borah, and the young defender of the dispossessed, Clarence Darrow. Big Trouble captures the tumultuous first decade of the twentieth century, when capital and labor, particularly in the raw, acquisitive West, were pitted against each other in something close to class war. Lukas paints a vivid portrait of a time and place in which actress Ethel Barrymore, baseball phenom Walter Johnson, and editor William Allen White jostled with railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, socialist Eugene V. Debs, gunslinger Charlie Siringo, and Operative 21, the intrepid Pinkerton agent who infiltrated Darrow's defense team. This is a grand narrative of the United States as it charged, full of hope and trepidation, into the twentieth century.

Author : Peter Hicks
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780606282987
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Wouldn't Want to Live in a Wild West Town written by Peter Hicks and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks through the eyes of the fictional marshal of an imaginary town called Dustville to show what life was like on the Great Plains just after the Civil War.

Author : Howard Bryan
Publisher : Clear Light Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780940666139
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wildest of the Wild West written by Howard Bryan and published by Clear Light Pub. This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Wild West' stories of Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone pale in comparison to the incredible story of Las Vegas, New Mexico, for decades considered the most violent community on America's western frontier. In Wildest of the Wild West, popular Western historian Howard Bryan provides a spirited account of the violent, melodramatic, and often bizarre events that centred in and around this small Hispanic farm and ranching community from 1835 to 1915.

Author : Mike Sonnenberg
Publisher : Huron Photo
ISBN 13 : 9780999433201
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost in Michigan written by Mike Sonnenberg and published by Huron Photo. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the popular Lost In Michigan website that was featured in the Detroit Free Press, It contains locations throughout Michigan, and tells their interesting story. There are over 50 stories and locations that you will find fascinating.

Author : Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375894276
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Town at Sundown written by Mary Pope Osborne and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make storytime a little spookier with the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time! Every visit to the magic tree house leads to a time-travel adventure! Is this town HAUNTED? Jack and Annie wonder when the Magic Tree House whisks them to the Wild West. But before they can say "Boo!" they rush headlong into an adventure filled with horse thieves, a lost colt, rattlesnakes, and a cowboy named Slim. Will Jack and Annie have time to solve the next Tree House Riddle? The answer may depend on a ghost! Did you know that the Magic Tree House series has two levels? MAGIC TREE HOUSE: Perfect for readers 6-9 who are just beginning to read chapter books—includes this boxed set! MERLIN MISSIONS: More challenging adventures for experienced readers ages 7-10 The Magic Tree House series has been a classroom favorite for over 25 years and is sure to inspire a love of reading—and adventure—in every child who joins Jack and Annie!

Author : Jim Thompson
Publisher : Mulholland Books
ISBN 13 : 0316195944
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Town written by Jim Thompson and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2011-12-25 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In trouble more often than not, guilty of assault, manslaughter, and honorably discharged from the military by the skin of his teeth, David "Bugs" McKenna can't seem to help doing the right thing at the wrong time--or the wrong thing, every chance he gets. But when he drifts his way into Ragtown, Texas, things seem to finally be turning around for Bugs. He gets his first job in years as the hotel detective of the landmark Hanlon Hotel. But now that Bugs owes deputy sheriff Lou Ford a favor, things are likely to get ugly, fast--and odds are, it'll have something to do with the bombshell wife of his Bugs' new employer... In WILD TOWN, Jim Thompson returns to the characters from THE KILLER INSIDE ME that made his reputation, in a virtuoso, multi-character portrait of how one man's life can take a turn for the worse.

Author : Octave Thanet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories of a Western Town written by Octave Thanet and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kelsey D. Wirth
Publisher : Bookcellar
ISBN 13 : 9780964918504
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections on a Western Town written by Kelsey D. Wirth and published by Bookcellar. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: