north-pole-picture-co reblogged
"Imagine Stockton Rush a hundred years from now getting the same kind of fandom Frederick Cook gets today."
#is this how people alive during cook's time would feel about us?#<- prev#based on some of the newspaper articles I’ve read about Cook and his vaudeville appearances: yeah#at least kind of#depending on who you asked he was either a darn good storyteller (whether his story was true or not) or a lying liar who lied#out to hoodwink the public#he got some good reviews for his vaudeville act#I wonder if all those people who cheered him really believed him; thought he was entertaining regardless of his truthfulness or lack thereof#or just thought he was a funny train wreck#Frederick Cook