01771cam a2200325 i 4500 1841097366 TxAuBib 20250205120000.0 230628s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023024871 9780826222992 HRD 36.95 0826222994 HRD 36.95 TxAuBib rda Langmead, Jon, 1975-, author. Ballyhoo [BOOK] : the roughhousers, con artists, and wildmen who invented professional wrestling / Jon Langmead. The roughhousers, con artists, and wildmen who invented professional wrestling. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2023. xix, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Sports and American culture Includes bibliographical references and index. "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.". 20250205. Wrestling United States History. Wrestling Social aspects United States. Wrestlers Social conditions United States. Sports and American culture.