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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 ...

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Captain Jack Crawford: Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman 2012, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM

ISBN-13: 9780826351746

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