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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Langmead, Jon, 1975- author.     Subjects     Wrestling -- United States -- History.     Wrestling -- Social aspects -- United States.     Wrestlers -- United States -- Social conditions.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Langmead, Jon, 1975- author.       by title:      Ballyhoo! : the roug...         MARC Display

Ballyhoo! : the roughhousers, con artists, and wildmen who invented professional wrestling / Jon Langmead. by Langmead, Jon, 1975- author. Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2023] Subjects Wrestling -- United States -- History.   Wrestling -- Social aspects -- United States.   Wrestlers -- United States -- Social conditions. ISBN:  9780826222992 hardcover 0826222994 hardcover Series:  Sports and American culture series. Description:  xix, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Requests:  0 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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Adult New Books 796.81209 La Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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