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Captain Jack Crawford: Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman
Captain Jack Crawford: Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman
Captain Jack Crawford: Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman
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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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Release dateMar 15, 2012
ISBN9780826351906
Captain Jack Crawford: Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman
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Darlis A. Miller

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

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