Captain Jack Crawford--buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman

Captain Jack Crawford--buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman
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Publisher : UNM Press
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 9780826351746
ISBN-13 : 0826351743
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Captain Jack Crawford--buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman by : Darlis A. Miller

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.

Captain Jack Crawford--buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman

Captain Jack Crawford--buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman
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Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015033093819
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Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Captain Jack Crawford--buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman by : Darlis A. Miller

Biography of American educator, author, explorer, and storyteller of the Wild West, John Wallace Crawford.

Ho! for the Black Hills

Ho! for the Black Hills
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Publisher : SDSHS Press
Total Pages : 472
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ISBN-10 : 9780985281786
ISBN-13 : 0985281782
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Ho! for the Black Hills by : Jack Crawford

In 1875, a young man from Pennsylvania known as Captain Jack joined the Dodge Expedition into the Black Hills of Dakota Territory, penning letters to the Omaha Daily Bee during that time and for six months in 1876. John Wallace Crawford, aka Captain Jack, wrote a vibrant account of this fascinating time in the American West. His correspondence featured unusual and intriguing details about the relative merits of the gulches, the vagaries and difficulties of travel in the region, the art of survival in what was essentially wilderness, the hardships of inclement weather, trouble with outlaws, and interactions with American Indians. Award-winning historian Paul L. Hedren has compiled these almost unknown letters, writing an introduction and essays, which result in a treasure trove of hitherto hidden primary documents as well as a ripping yarn in the traditions of the old West. Book jacket.

Songs of Ourselves

Songs of Ourselves
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 487
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ISBN-10 : 9780674035126
ISBN-13 : 0674035127
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Songs of Ourselves by : Joan Shelley Rubin

Listen to a short interview with Joan Shelley RubinHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane In the years between 1880 and 1950, Americans recited poetry at family gatherings, school assemblies, church services, camp outings, and civic affairs. As they did so, they invested poems--and the figure of the poet--with the beliefs, values, and emotions that they experienced in those settings. Reciting a poem together with others joined the individual to the community in a special and memorable way. In a strikingly original and rich portrait of the uses of verse in America, Joan Shelley Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words. Emphasizing the cultural circumstances that influenced the production and reception of poets and poetry in this country, Rubin recovers the experiences of ordinary people reading poems in public places. We see the recent immigrant seeking acceptance, the schoolchild eager to be integrated into the class, the mourner sharing grief at a funeral, the grandparent trying to bridge the generation gap--all instances of readers remaking texts to meet social and personal needs. Preserving the moral, romantic, and sentimental legacies of the nineteenth century, the act of reading poems offered cultural continuity, spiritual comfort, and pleasure. Songs of Ourselves is a unique history of literary texts as lived experience. By blurring the boundaries between "high" and "popular" poetry as well as between modern and traditional, it creates a fuller, more democratic way of studying our poetic language and ourselves.

Calamity

Calamity
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 327
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ISBN-10 : 9780300252125
ISBN-13 : 0300252129
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Calamity by : Karen R. Jones

A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West’s most notorious woman: Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary, popularly known as Calamity Jane, was the pistol-packing, rootin’ tootin’ “lady wildcat” of the American West. Brave and resourceful, she held her own with the men of America’s most colorful era and became a celebrity both in her own right and through her association with the likes of Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody. In this engaging account, Karen Jones takes a fresh look at the story of this iconic frontierswoman. She pieces together what is known of Canary’s life and shows how a rough and itinerant lifestyle paved the way for the scattergun, alcohol-fueled heroics that dominated Canary’s career. Spanning Canary’s rise from humble origins to her role as “heroine of the plains” and the embellishment of her image over subsequent decades, Jones shows her to be feisty, eccentric, transgressive—and very much complicit in the making of the myth that was Calamity Jane.

Buffalo Bill on Stage

Buffalo Bill on Stage
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Publisher : UNM Press
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9780826344298
ISBN-13 : 0826344291
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Buffalo Bill on Stage by : Sandra K. Sagala

Between 1872 and 1886, before he achieved acclaim for his Wild West show, "Buffalo Bill" led a troupe of traveling actors known as a Combination across the country performing in frontier melodramas. Biographies of William Frederick Cody rarely address these fourteen rather obscure years when Cody honed the skills that would make him the world-renowned entertainer as he is now remembered. In this revision of her earlier book, Buffalo Bill, Actor, Sandra Sagala chronicles the decade and a half of Cody's life as he crisscrossed the country entertaining millions. She analyzes how the lessons he learned during those theatrical years helped shape his Wild West program, as well as Cody, the performer.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West

Buffalo Bill's Wild West
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780809032440
ISBN-13 : 0809032449
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Buffalo Bill's Wild West by : Joy S. Kasson

Buffalo Bill's Wild West presents a fascinating analysis of the first famous American to erase the boundary between real history and entertainment Canada, and Europe. Crowds cheered as cowboys and Indians--and Annie Oakley!--galloped past on spirited horses, sharpshooters exploded glass balls tossed high in the air, and cavalry troops arrived just in time to save a stagecoach from Indian attack. Vivid posters on billboards everywhere made William Cody, the show's originator and star, a world-renowned figure. Joy S. Kasson's important new book traces Cody's rise from scout to international celebrity, and shows how his image was shaped. Publicity stressed his show's "authenticity" yet audiences thrilled to its melodrama; fact and fiction converged in a performance that instantly became part of the American tradition. But how, precisely, did that come about? How, for example, did Cody use his audience's memories of the Civil War and the Indian wars? He boasted that his show included participants in the recent conflicts it presented theatrically, yet he also claimed it evoked "memories" of America's bygone greatness. Kasson's shrewd, engaging study--richly illustrated--in exploring the disappearing boundary between entertainment and public events in American culture, shows us just how we came to imagine our memories.

Tales from the Journey of the Dead

Tales from the Journey of the Dead
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9780803213586
ISBN-13 : 0803213581
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Tales from the Journey of the Dead by : Alan Boye

Readers are taken on a trek through the beauty and violence of the forbidding American desert that exists south of Albuquerque, a region known as the Jornada del Muerto, the Journey of the Dead, capturing the history of the area from the perspective of the travelers and natives who knew it best.

The Frontier in American Culture

The Frontier in American Culture
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 150
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ISBN-10 : 0520088441
ISBN-13 : 9780520088443
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis The Frontier in American Culture by : Richard White

Essays and illustrations explore the image of the frontier, examining Frederick Jackson Turner and Buffalo Bill's accounts of westward expansion and how these stories evolved in the 20th century.

A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign

A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 544
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ISBN-10 : 9781119129738
ISBN-13 : 1119129737
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign by : Brad D. Lookingbill

An accessible and authoritative overview of the scholarship that has shaped our understanding of one of the most iconic battles in the history of the American West Combines contributions from an array of respected scholars, historians, and battlefield scientists Outlines the political and cultural conditions that laid the foundation for the Centennial Campaign and examines how George Armstrong Custer became its figurehead Provides a detailed analysis of the battle maneuverings at Little Bighorn, paying special attention to Indian testimony from the battlefield Concludes with a section examining how the Battle of Little Bighorn has been mythologized and its pervading influence on American culture