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New York's opera house brawl. (Flashback).(rivalry between American actor Edwin Forrest and English actor William C. Macready)(Brief Article)
; ...that he would cross the ocean and show London a thing or two about acting. His friends warned against the trip. James Kirke Paulding said, Washington never went to Europe to gain immortality. Jackson never went there to extend his fame. Why should...
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The First West: Writing from the American Frontier, 1776-1860.(Book Review)
; ...pulp-fiction Indian fighting here--John Filson, Daniel Boone, James Kirke Paulding, Timothy Flint--and maybe the greatest bear-hunting...including two by escaped slaves, Charles Ball and James Williams) establish the ground from which nostalgic...
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Paradises lost: Anne Grant and late eighteenth-century idealizations of America.
; ...time in America (The Contrast 197). Some time later, James Fenimore Cooper's daughter included excerpts from...wilderness forts; Cooper's much more obscure contemporary James Kirke Paulding also used Grant's work as a source for his own sentimental...
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The west of Frederick Jackson Turner in three American plays
; ...articulate to American audiences the initial dance of exuberance and its eventual paralysis in a post-Turnerian world.6 James Kirke Paulding's 1831 play The Lion of the West-later re-titled The Kentuckian, or, A Trip to New York in 1815-is staged at a...
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How the myth was spun. (Western stories) (Horizons)
; ...the colorful West for their own purposes. Crockett even had the benefit of a sort-of campaign consultant. When James Kirke Paulding's play The Lion of the West opened in New York in 1831, audiences recognized Col. Nimrod Wildfire as their beloved...
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