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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

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  796.812 LANGMEAD    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  796.812 LANGMEAD    Check Shelf
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.
Wrestling. (OCoLC)fst01181580
Wrestling -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01181591
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Online version: Langmead, Jon, 1975- Ballyhoo! Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2023] 9780826274953 (DLC) 2023024872
ISBN 9780826222992 hardcover
0826222994 hardcover
9780826274953 electronic book
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