Ah yes, but was it also an allegory on the presidential election of 1896? Wicked Witch of the East for Wall Street, Wicked Witch of the West for Leland Stanford and the ‘Big Four’, the Good Witch of the North for the Northern Alliance, the Good Witch of the South for the Southern Alliance, Tin Man for the American worker, Scarecrow for the American farmer, the Cowardly Lion for William Jennings Bryan, the ‘Wizard’ for William McKinley, etc., etc.,
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE had Doc Holiday dying at the OK Corral which of course did not happen.