Booth Evelyn - Buffalo Bill, boozers, brothels, and bare-knuckle brawlers: an Englishmans journal of adventure in America

Introduction

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7. Sarah J. Blackstone, The Business of Being Buffalo Bill: Selected Letters of William F. Cody 18791917 (New York, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1988), 103.

8. Daily Inter Ocean, page 1, March 11, 1888. An Artful Dodger.

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12. San Francisco Call, page 10, September 12, 1903. Citizens of Portland Credit Mastodon Story.

13. Roger Longrigg, The History of Horse Racing (New York, NY: Stein and Day/Publishers, 1972), pp. 147150.

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Chapter One: The Journey to America

1. St. Pancras was originally a medieval parish that ran from close to what is now Oxford Street north as far as Highgate, and from what is now Regents Park in the west to the road now known as York Way in the east, boundaries that take in much of the current London Borough of Camden, including the central part of it. However, St. Pancras has lost its status as the central settlement in the area. The district now encompassed by the term St. Pancras is not easy to define, and usage of St. Pancras as a place name is fairly limited. Available from www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/MDX/StPancras/StPancrasHistory.html; accessed January 19, 2012.

2. Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

3. The R.M.S. Oregon was a Cunard Line steamship that began operation in June, 1884. The vessel would later sink in 1886 after being rammed by a schooner named Charles H. Morse. Michael T. Isenberg, John L. Sullivan and His America (Chicago: University of Illinois Press), p. 176, and Michael W. Pocock, Daily Event for March 14, available from www.maritimequest.com/daily_event_archive/2006/march/14_ss_oregon.htm; accessed May 5, 2009.

4. The term Norish is in reference to people of Norse, Norwegian, or Scandinavian ethnicity.

5. Ditto the purser refers to the purser or individual who takes care of the ships accounts and tends to the passengers.

6. Regy is in reference to Reginald Beaumont Heygate (18571903).

7. Frizzle is in reference to John Percival Frizzle.

8. Brown and Bingham Jack are believed to be references to Reginald Heygate and John Frizzle.

9. The terms blind and paralytic are Irish slang for being very drunk.

10. Gougers is Irish slang for aggressive males.

11. Madame Adelina Patti (18431919) was the highest paid living opera entertainer during her lifetime. She was considered a vocal phenomenon, glamorous figure with both an intriguing professional and private life. At the time of her death, she had been a performer for sixty-three years having made her first appearance in concert at eight years old. At this point in time, she was married to the Marquis of Caux and would be approximately forty-one years old. John Fredrick Cone, Adelina Patti: Queen of Hearts (Portland, OR: Hal Leonard Corporation, 2003) pp. 7, 120.

12. Alfred Greenfield (1853 ), a professional boxer and protg of Richard Kyle Fox, who also gave him thirty British pounds and booked him on the R.M.S Oregon , was an ill-prepared and unskilled prizefighter who was set to fight John L. Sullivan for the Police Gazette Diamond Belt. The belt was riddled in silver and gold with a ring in the center encircled in diamonds. After sustaining a severe beating by Sullivan, the contest was abruptly stopped by New York City Police on December 6, 1884, for blows with the intent to injure or exhaust either party, which had been ruled an unlawful act by Judge Barrett of the New York State Supreme Court. Isenberg, John L. Sullivan and His America, pp. 17679.

13. The Salvation Army, started as a Christian charity organization by William and Catherine Booth, and had sprung up in East London, England by 1865. William Booth was a minister who preached at Binfeld Road, Clapham, where he would meet Catherine Mumford. The two would later marry and form the Salvation Army. Robert Sandall, The History of the Salvation Army: Volume I 18051878 (Edinburgh, Scotland: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1947) pp. 128.

14. The Liverpool Senior Cup is a soccer competition between the city of Liverpool and the surrounding areas. It is the County Cup Competition of the Liverpool County Football Association. It involves Merseyside, Everton, and Tranmere Rovers. The competition was founded in 1882. The Early Days (187888), available from www.toffeeweb.com/history/concise/1878-1888.asp; accessed November 23, 2008.

15. Queenstown, Ireland is known today as Cobh but from 18491922 the town was called Queenstown to commemorate a visit by Queen Victoria. Kieran McCarthy, Republican Cobh and the East Cork Volunteers Since 1913 (Dublin, Ireland: The History Press Ltd, 2008) pp. 6263.

16. The Queens Hotel was a very prominent hotel in south Ireland. It was built in 1850 and the proprietor at the time was a Mr. W. Raymond. The bedrooms of the hotel accommodated eighty guests and ten distinct sets of sitting rooms. Stratten and Stratten, Dublin, Cork, and the South of Ireland: A Literary Commercial and Social Review, Past and Present; with a Description of Leading Mercantile Houses and Commercial Enterprises (London, England: Stratten & Stratten, 1892) p. 233.