Buffalo Bills Great Wild West Show

Author : Joy S. Kasson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466895373
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Bill's Wild West written by Joy S. Kasson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buffalo Bill's Wild West presents a fascinating analysis of the first famous American to erase the boundary between real history and entertainment Canada, and Europe. Crowds cheered as cowboys and Indians--and Annie Oakley!--galloped past on spirited horses, sharpshooters exploded glass balls tossed high in the air, and cavalry troops arrived just in time to save a stagecoach from Indian attack. Vivid posters on billboards everywhere made William Cody, the show's originator and star, a world-renowned figure. Joy S. Kasson's important new book traces Cody's rise from scout to international celebrity, and shows how his image was shaped. Publicity stressed his show's "authenticity" yet audiences thrilled to its melodrama; fact and fiction converged in a performance that instantly became part of the American tradition. But how, precisely, did that come about? How, for example, did Cody use his audience's memories of the Civil War and the Indian wars? He boasted that his show included participants in the recent conflicts it presented theatrically, yet he also claimed it evoked "memories" of America's bygone greatness. Kasson's shrewd, engaging study--richly illustrated--in exploring the disappearing boundary between entertainment and public events in American culture, shows us just how we came to imagine our memories.

Author : Jennifer Silate
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823943296
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Sure Shot written by Jennifer Silate and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1885, sharpshooter Annie Oakley has to prove herself to Buffalo Bill Cody, owner of a popular Wild West show.

Author : Walter Havighurst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Bill's Great Wild West Show written by Walter Havighurst and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting story of the most famous live western show America ever produced.

Author : Louis S. Warren
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030742510X
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Bill's America written by Louis S. Warren and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the most famous American of his age. He claimed to have worked for the Pony Express when only a boy and to have scouted for General George Custer. But what was his real story? And how did a frontiersman become a worldwide celebrity? In this prize-winning biography, acclaimed author Louis S. Warren explains not only how Cody exaggerated his real experience as an army scout and buffalo hunter, but also how that experience inspired him to create the gigantic, traveling spectacle known as Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. A dazzling mix of Indians, cowboys, and vaqueros, they performed on two continents for three decades, offering a surprisingly modern view of the United States and a remarkably democratic version of its history. This definitive biography reveals the genius of America’s greatest showman, and the startling history of the American West that drove him and his performers to the world stage.

Author : Bobby Bridger
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292709171
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull written by Bobby Bridger and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Army scout, buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, and impresario of the world-renowned "Wild West Show," William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody lived the real American West and also helped create the "West of the imagination." Born in 1846, he took part in the great westward migration, hunted the buffalo, and made friends among the Plains Indians, who gave him the name Pahaska (long hair). But as the frontier closed and his role in "winning the West" passed into legend, Buffalo Bill found himself becoming the symbol of the destruction of the buffalo and the American Indian. Deeply dismayed, he spent the rest of his life working to save the remaining buffalo and to preserve Plains Indian culture through his Wild West shows. This biography of William Cody focuses on his lifelong relationship with Plains Indians, a vital part of his life story that, surprisingly, has been seldom told. Bobby Bridger draws on many historical accounts and Cody's own memoirs to show how deeply intertwined Cody's life was with the Plains Indians. In particular, he demonstrates that the Lakota and Cheyenne were active cocreators of the Wild West shows, which helped them preserve the spiritual essence of their culture in the reservation era while also imparting something of it to white society in America and Europe. This dual story of Buffalo Bill and the Plains Indians clearly reveals how one West was lost, and another born, within the lifetime of one remarkable man.

Author : R.L. Wilson
Publisher : Chartwell Books
ISBN 13 : 9780785818946
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Bill's Wild West written by R.L. Wilson and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic celebration of the colorful characters that made up the Wild West shows, with color and black and white photos throughout.

Author : Michelle Delaney
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062045350
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors written by Michelle Delaney and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual pleasure and a unique insight into American history For the first time ever, here is renowned photographer Gertrude Käsebier's haunting collection of photographs of Native American performers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show at the turn of the century. One hundred years later, Käsebier's portraits remain significant visual records into the lives of these Sioux performers and their nation. Her striking photographs capture the strength and character of each individual, documenting the complexity of true warriors playing a staged version of themselves. In 1898, Käsebier wrote to William F. Cody requesting to photograph Indians performing in his Wild West show at Madison Square Garden. Her photographs proved poignant. Her studio had no elaborate backdrops, and she removed Indian regalia to depict her subjects as "raw" individuals, with strong personalities and experiences that blurred the distinction between traditional life and contemporary times. Käsebier developed long relationships with several of the Indians, corresponding with a few for many years. Examples of these letters appear in the volume, as well as drawings done by Indians waiting in her studio, photographs of Dakota Sioux on their reservation, little-known historical background, and Wild West show memorabilia, including rare pages from Buffalo Bill's original route book. Käsebier's photographs are preserved at the National Museum of American History's Photographic History Collection at the Smithsonian Institution.

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Falcon Guides
ISBN 13 : 9780762735655
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Gals written by Chris Enss and published by Falcon Guides. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles a number of women sharpshooters, bronco riders, and dancers who were part of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Shows including Lillian Smith, Lulu Parr, and Annie Oakley, and chronicles their achievements.

Author : Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Bill's Wild West, America's National Entertainment written by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Gallop
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075249998X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Bill's British Wild West written by Alan Gallop and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-05-29 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how William F. Cody, army scout, Indian fighter, stagecoach driver and buffalo hunter, became an acting sensation with his Wild West show, playing to millions of people in America and Europe for over 30 years. This account highlights the tours of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Includes details of the many towns and villages visited by Buffalo Bill and how the residents reacted to this incredible spectacular. This entertaining account of Buffalo Bill's tours of Britain is richly illustrated, with many previously unpublished photographs, cartoons, and posters.