Jumat, 03 Maret 2017

Evelyn Booth Took a Shot at Fame as A Partner of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West

But Cody’s English benefactor is largely forgotten today. In October 1884, during the halcyon days of America’s Gilded Age, wealthy young Englishman Evelyn Booth ventured to the United States to sample all that burgeoning country had to offer. As the avid sportsman traveled from New York to Chicago to Arkansas and finally to New Orleans, …

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