{"product_id":"9780826351906","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","brand":"University of New Mexico Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124546027760,"sku":"9780826351906","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780826351906_p0.jpg?v=1769910966","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780826351906","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}