Linda Granfield

Presents the context for the writing of the famous poem by the Canadian medical officer who attended injured soldiers in Flanders during the First World War.

Traces the history of circuses from the time of ancient Egypt and Greece through their evolution in eighteenth-century Europe to the spectacles created by P.T. Barnum and other modern-day showmen.

An introduction to cowboys, their history, their daily life, famous coyboys and cowgirls, and portrayals of cowboys in modern films.