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Author Langmead, Jon, 1975- author.

Title Ballyhoo! : the roughhousers, con artists, and wildmen who invented professional wrestling / Jon Langmead.

Publication Info. Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2023]
©2023
1 hold on first copy returned of 1 copy
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3204775~S1
Location Call No. Status
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  796.8120973 LAN    NOT YET AVAIL
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Description xix, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Sports and American culture
Sports and American culture series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Ballyhoo! is a history of professional wrestling's formative period in the U.S., from roughly 1874 to 1941, and the contested interplay of wrestlers and promoters who built the "sport" as we know it. During this period, the major conventions that would define wrestling to the present day were perfected and codified, as wrestling morphed from a rough sport practiced on farms and at town gatherings to melodramatic mass entertainment that reliably drew large crowds in cities across the nation"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Wrestling -- United States -- History.
Wrestling -- Social aspects -- United States.
Wrestlers -- United States -- Social conditions.
ISBN 9780826222992 hardcover
0826222994 hardcover
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