Davy Crockett's Riproarious Shemales and Sentimental Sisters

Women’S Tall Tales from the Crockett Almanacs, 1835–1856

Michael Lofaro (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2017
Stackpole Books (Verlag)
978-0-8117-3743-2 (ISBN)

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The legendary feats of Davy Crockett, who could tree a ghost, ride his thirty-seven-foot-long alligator up Niagara Falls, and drink up the Mississippi River, are common knowledge to devotees of this nineteenth-century comic superhero. But what may come as a surprise to many is that the legendary frontiersman also served as the fictional narrator of a collection of outrageous tall tales about women in the same Crocket Almanacs in which he “recorded” his own adventures. Conceived as a marketing device by nineteenth-century publishers hoping to gain a share of the lucrative almanac market, such stories made these slim volumes the best-selling and longest-running series of comic almanacs published in the United States before the Civil War. Booking back at them now, the Crocket Almanacs offer a true “fun house mirror” view of the culture of antebellum America.

Michael Lofaro has published numerous works on frontier America including The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone. He has also published three other books on Crockett with the University of Tennessee Press, including Davy Crockett: The Man, The Legend, Th

Erscheinungsdatum	01.08.2018
Verlagsort	Mechanicsburg
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 230 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8117-3743-8 / 0811737438
ISBN-13	978-0-8117-3743-2 / 9780811737432
Zustand	Neuware