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Roman Spectacle on the Rio Grande: Borderland Animal Fights at the Turn of the Century - Couverture souple

Folsom, Bradley

 
9781467155335: Roman Spectacle on the Rio Grande: Borderland Animal Fights at the Turn of the Century
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1467155330 ISBN 13 : 9781467155335
Editeur : History Press, 2024

Synopsis

How the gladiatorial games of ancient Rome appeared on the Texas frontier. From 1895 to 1913, promoters on the Texas-Mexico border imported a variety of large mammals from around the world to pit them against one another in interspecies combat. Lions fought bears, an elephant took on a bull, and one promoter released a tiger, a bull, and a bear into the same cage at the same time. Human combatants occasionally entered the fray, from a rodeo pioneer who squared off against an elk to a bullfighter who took on a buffalo. Vaudeville showmen supplied livestock, sensationalistic newspapers drove ticket sales, and Progressive Era animal rights groups lobbied to shut down the spectacle. Bradley Folsom gives an account of the epic border battles, both in and out of the cage, which tell the story of a time when Texas was a rising economic power and Mexico verged on revolution.

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À propos de l'auteur

Bradley Folsom is an award-winning author and history professor who specializes in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. He enjoys true crime and solving historical mysteries.

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Éditeur
History Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1467155330
ISBN 13 
9781467155335
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
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