Captain Jack Crawford
Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman
Biography & Memoir, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Historical
| Author: | Darlis A. Miller | ISBN: | 9780826351906 |
| Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press | Publication: | March 15, 2012 |
| Imprint: | University of New Mexico Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Darlis A. Miller |
| ISBN: | 9780826351906 |
| Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Publication: | March 15, 2012 |
| Imprint: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
