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Legends Bookstore
Legends Bookstore
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307-586-2320
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[email protected]
Website
https://www.legendsbooks.com/

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Legends Bookstore
Legends Bookstore | 1350 Sheridan Ave, Cody, Wyoming
Website
https://www.legendsbooks.com/
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Date

Aug 03 2024
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Time

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Book Signing – Chris Wimmer

CHRIS WIMMER is the creator, host, and lead writer of “Legends of the Old West,” a long-form, narrative podcast that tells true stories of the American West. He has a master’s degree in journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and has won numerous local, state, and national awards for his writing. The Summer of 1876 is his first book.
The summer of 1876 was a key time period in the development of the mythology of the Old West. Many individuals who are considered legends by modern readers were involved in events that began their notoriety or turned out to be the most famous — or infamous — moments of their lives. Those individuals were Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Wild Bill Hickok, and Jesse James.
“The Summer of 1876” weaves together the timelines of the events that made these men legends to demonstrate the overlapping context of their stories and to illustrate the historical importance of that summer, all layered with highlights of significant milestones in 1876: the inaugural baseball season of the National League; the final year of President Ulysses S. Grant’s embattled administration; the debut of an invention called the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell; the release of Mark Twain’s novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer;” and many more.
Contextualizing these events against the backdrop of the massive 100th anniversary party thrown to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence, “The Summer of 1876” is the ultimate exploration and celebration of the summer that defined the West.

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