Captain Jack Crawford: Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman

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.

Author: Darlis A. Miller
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 03/15/2012
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780826351746

About the Author
Miller, Darlis A.: - Darlis A. Miller is professor emerita of history at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.