The Merchant Prince of Dodge City The Life and Times of Robert M. Wright
| Author/creator | Haywood, C. Robert Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Norman : University of Oklahoma Press |
| Description | 256 p. ill 08.250 x 05.500 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation In the nineteenth century, Dodge City was arguably America's leading cattle town, and Robert M. Wright was indisputably Dodge City's leading merchant. C. Robert Haywood's Merchant Prince of Dodge City demonstrates that the city's rise and fall paralleled Wright's rapid ascent to power and abrupt decline.After working as a bull whacker on wagon trains traveling the Santa Fe Trail, Wright began a series of businesses that helped establish Dodge City and nurtured its development as a crucial link in the Texas-Kansas cattle business. Using his leverage as a member of the state legislature, his political and economic influence in Dodge City, and his wide circle of acquaintances in Texas, Wright kept the southwestern comer of Kansas open to Texas cattle from the 1860s until 1886.When the end of the trail-driving industry was imminent, Wright refused to acknowledge the evidence, was overexpanded, and was caught in the depression of the 1890s. Dodge City plunged into an economic slump that lasted more than a decade. As the town moved into a new era, its populace downplayed the gaudy (if prosperous) past, and with it Wright was largely forgotten. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 98002814 |
| ISBN | 9780806130736 |
| ISBN | 0806130733 (Trade Cloth) Out of Print |
| Standard identifier# | 9780806130736 |
| Stock number | 00027344 |
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