Davy Crockett's Riproarious Shemales and Sentimental Sisters

von Michael Lofaro

352 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Amerikanische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9780811737432
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2017
• Größe: 229 x 577 mm
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc