Ballyhoo! : the roughhousers, con artists, and wildmen who invented professional wrestling
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
796.812097/LANGMEAD,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2023]
©2023
©2023
DESCRIPTION
xix, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780826222992, 0826222994, 9780826222992
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"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"--