{"product_id":"captain-jack-crawford-buckskin-poet-scout-and-showman-9780826351746","title":"Captain Jack Crawford: Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman","description":"\u003cp\u003eJack 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDressed 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Darlis A. Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of New Mexico Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.80w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826351746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiller, Darlis A.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Darlis A. Miller is professor emerita of history at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of New Mexico Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40201486794867,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_9ba46316-579d-4074-9f8f-a56a64cf2415.jpg?v=1656166275","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/captain-jack-crawford-buckskin-poet-scout-and-showman-9780826351746","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}