Arizona on Stage is popular PDF and ePub book, written by Thomas P. Collins in 2015-11-15, it is a fantastic choice for those who relish reading online the History genre. Let's immerse ourselves in this engaging History book by exploring the summary and details provided below. Remember, Arizona on Stage can be Read Online from any device for your convenience.
Arizona on Stage Book PDF Summary
Most of the books that have been written about territorial Arizona and the southwest focus on the Indian Wars, outlaws, violent crimes, gambling, saloons, and bawdy houses. They foster and perpetuate the notion that southwest mining towns in the nineteenth century were little more than battlefields and lawless dens of vice and corruption. This is only half true. The lawyers, judges, doctors, army officers, bankers, journalists, teachers, and businessmen and women who actually ran the towns were educated and culturally sophisticated people who yearned for the niceties of Atlantic Coast culture. They built churches, founded choral societies and amateur theater troupes, and built libraries, multi-purpose halls, and “opera houses” where talented professional actors and their companies performed both the classics and contemporary melodramas, operas, minstrels shows, etc. These men and women spent a considerable amount of their leisure time in the theater, often as much as three nights per week. The plays they attended reflected their social and moral values, their taste, and their worship of theatrical celebrities. Their attendance and financial support of the theater was a measure of their civic pride and social consciousness. This popular history will help to balance the image of the Wild West.
Detail Book of Arizona on Stage PDF
- Author : Thomas P. Collins
- Release : 15 November 2015
- Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
- ISBN : 9781493016600
- Genre : History
- Total Page : 289 pages
- Language : English
- PDF File Size : 7,8 Mb
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