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03318aam a22005054i 4500 001 7ABA4B92B08111E6AD0720C8DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161122010105 008 160503t20162016nyua b 001 0deng d 010 $a 2016018256 020 $a 0393247503 (hardcover) 020 $a 9780393247503 (hardcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SKYRV $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ny 050 00 $a T485.B2 $b C74 2016 082 00 $a 607/.3474797 $2 23 100 1 $a Creighton, Margaret S., $d 1949- $e author. 245 14 $a The electrifying fall of Rainbow City : $b spectacle and assassination at the 1901 World's Fair / $c Margaret Creighton. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b W.W. Norton & Company, $c [2016] 300 $a 332 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prologue -- Rainbow City -- Summer in the city -- The favored guest -- The blood-colored temple -- The emergency -- The rise and the fall -- Aftershock -- Freefall -- The escape of the Doll Lady -- The elephant -- The timekeepers. 520 2 $a "The 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, meant to herald the twentieth century, went tragically, spectacularly, awry. In 1901, Buffalo, New York, the eighth biggest city in America, wanted to launch the new century with the Pan American Exposition. It would showcase the Western hemisphere and bring millions of people to western New York. With Niagara Falls as a drawing card and with stunning colors and electric lights, promoters believed it would be bigger, better, and--literally--more brilliant than Chicago's White City of 1893. Weaving together narratives of both notorious and forgotten figures, Margaret Creighton unveils the fair's big tragedy and its lesser-known scandals. From a deranged laborer who stalked and shot President William McKinley to a sixty-year-old woman who rode a barrel over Niagara Falls, to two astonishing acts--a little person and an elephant--who turned the tables on their duplicitous manager, Creighton reveals the myriad power struggles that would personify modern America. The Buffalo fair announced the new century, but in ways nobody expected"--Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a McKinley, William, $d 1843-1901 $x Assassination. 611 20 $a Pan-American Exposition $d (1901 : $c Buffalo, N.Y.) 611 20 $a Pan-American Exposition $d (1901 : $c Buffalo, N.Y.) $v Biography. 650 0 $a Exhibitions $x History $z Buffalo $z Buffalo $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Spectacular, The $x History $z Buffalo $z Buffalo $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Scandals $z Buffalo $z Buffalo $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Buffalo (N.Y.) $x Social life and customs $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Buffalo (N.Y.) $x Social conditions $y 20th century. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 9 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909042245.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722053515.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204084505.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110070408.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210015729.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006102706.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20171129010156.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20170301011548.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20161122010430.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7ABA4B92B08111E6AD0720C8DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search