Description
<p>Contents</p><p></p><p>List of Illustrations	</p><p>Acknowledgments	</p><p>Introduction	</p><p>Prologue: 1961	</p><p>1	Haunted	</p><p>2	Mr. Yecker Opens a Theater: 1866	</p><p>3	The Killing of the Conestogas: 1763	</p><p>4	Sacred Space	</p><p>5	Mr. Hager Builds a Hall: 1852	</p><p>6	“What Has the North to Do with Slavery?”: 1852–1861	</p><p>7	Interlude 	</p><p>8	Theater of War: 1861–1865	</p><p>9	Mr. Yecker Opens an Opera House: 1873	</p><p>10	In Transit	</p><p>11	Buffalo Bill and the American West: 1873–1882	</p><p>12	Memory Machine	</p><p>13	The Minstrel’s Mask: 1852–1927	</p><p>14	Empty Space	</p><p>15	Players: 1886–1893	</p><p>16	Women’s Work: 1870–1931	</p><p>17	Cartography	</p><p>18	Images, Moving and Still: 1896–1930	</p><p>19	Ghost Dance: 1896–1997	</p><p>Epilogue: 2008	</p><p>Notes	</p><p>Bibliography	</p><p>Index	</p><p></p>
Reviews
“Thanks to . . . Leslie Stainton’s wonderfully unique new book, Staging Ground: An American Theater and Its Ghosts, I find that I care about this building I’ve never seen. . . . I can’t recommend this book highly enough.”
—KeithTaylor, Ann Arbor Observer