Dennistoun
Victorian sandstone tenement suburb of planned streets, churches and a park with a cast-iron fountain.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Dennistoun in Glasgow's East End begins in the winter of eighteen ninety-one, when Buffalo Bill's Wild West moved into a converted exhibition hall and filled seven thousand seats. It follows Kicking Bear, an Oglala Lakota holy man, and the Ghost Dance he carried home from Nevada, a ritual whose dancers trusted plain cotton shirts. You'll also meet the troupe's interpreter, George Crager, and a portrait sitting on Bellgrove Street.
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