Hundreds of people kept journals highlighting their travels across America in the 19th century, but Evelyn Booth’s account of the journey he and several companions took from November 1884 to April 1885 is unique. Kellen Cutsforth has edited Booth’s journal in Buffalo Bill, Boozers, Brothers, and Bare-Knuckle Brawlers: An Englishman’s Journal of Adventure in America, adding detailed footnotes and additional contextual detail. Booth’s diary is one of the most unvarnished versions of the ad


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