{"product_id":"captain-jack-crawford-buckskin-poet-scout-and-showman","title":"Captain Jack Crawford: Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0826351743\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Miller, Darlis A.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\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.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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miakarts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49681379066096,"sku":"NEW0826351743","price":24.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ethereallybeautiful.com\/products\/captain-jack-crawford-buckskin-poet-scout-and-showman","provider":"Ethereally Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}