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Captain Jack Crawford--buckskin poet, scout, and showman

Miller, Darlis A., 1939-

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Annotation 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.

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Subject: Crawford, Jack, 1847-1917. / Poets, American 19th century Biography. / Scouts (Reconnaissance) West (U.S.) Biography. / Entertainers West (U.S.) Biography.
• ISBN: 9780826351746, 0826351743, 9780826351906, 0826351905

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS1469.C3 Z75 2012	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE