Darlis A. Miller

Captain Jack Crawford (eBook, ePUB)

Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Jack Crawford (1847-1917) entertained a generation of Americans and introduced them to their frontier heritage. A master storyteller who presented the West as he experienced it, he was one of America's most popular performers in the late nineteenth century.

Dressed in buckskin with a wide-brimmed sombrero covering his flowing locks, Crawford delivered a "frontier monologue and medley" that, as one New York City journalist reported, "held his audience spell-bound for two hours by a simple narration of his life."

In this biography, Darlis Miller re-creates his experiences as a scout, rancher, miner, reformer, husband and father, and poet and entertainer to reinterpret the American Dream and the lure of getting rich pursued by many during the Gilded Age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826351906
• Artikelnr.: 59594389

Autorenporträt

Darlis A. Miller is professor emerita of history at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.