Author: Buffalo BillPublisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Buffalo Bill (Hon. Wm. F. Cody) and His Wild West Companions
Author: Buffalo BillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Buffalo Bill (Hon. Wm. F. Cody) and His Wild West Companions
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Wild West in England
Author: William F. CodyPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803244665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Army scout, frontiersman, and hero of the American West, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was also a shrewd self-promoter, showman, and entrepreneur. In 1888 he published The Story of the Wild West, a collection of biographies of four well-known American frontier figures: Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Kit Carson, and himself. Cody contributed an abridged version of his 1879 autobiography with an addendum titled The Wild West in England, now available in this stand-alone annotated edition, including all the illustrations from the original text along with photographs of Cody and promotional materials. Here Cody describes his Wild West exhibition, the show that offered audiences a mythic experience of the American frontier. Focusing on the show’s first season of performances in England, Cody includes excerpts of numerous laudatory descriptions of his show from the English press as well as stories of his time spent with British nobility—from private performances for Queen Victoria and the Prince and Princess of Wales to dinners and teas with the elite of London society. He depicts himself as an ambassador of American culture, proclaiming that he and his Wild West show prompted the British to “know more of the mighty nation beyond the Atlantic and . . . to esteem us better than at any time within the limits of modern history.”
The Poet Scout
Author: Jack CrawfordBuffalo Bill on Stage
Author: Sandra K. SagalaPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826344291
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Between 1872 and 1886, before he achieved acclaim for his Wild West show, "Buffalo Bill" led a troupe of traveling actors known as a Combination across the country performing in frontier melodramas. Biographies of William Frederick Cody rarely address these fourteen rather obscure years when Cody honed the skills that would make him the world-renowned entertainer as he is now remembered. In this revision of her earlier book, Buffalo Bill, Actor, Sandra Sagala chronicles the decade and a half of Cody's life as he crisscrossed the country entertaining millions. She analyzes how the lessons he learned during those theatrical years helped shape his Wild West program, as well as Cody, the performer.
"Buffalo Bill" (The Hon. William F. Cody)
Author: Henry Llewellyn WilliamsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Story of the Wild West and Camp-fire Chats
Author: Buffalo BillPublisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World
Author: Buffalo Bill's Wild West CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Beautiful full color litho cover, stagecoach under attack from Indians, cameo portrait of W.F. Cody.
Epiphany in the Wilderness
Author: Karen R. JonesPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1457197545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
"Whether fulfilling subsistence needs or featured in stories of grand adventure, hunting loomed large in the material and the imagined landscape of the nineteenth-century West. Epiphany in the Wilderness explores the social, political, economic, and environmental dynamics of hunting on the frontier in three “acts,” using performance as a trail guide and focusing on the production of a “cultural ecology of the chase” in literature, art, photography, and taxidermy.Using the metaphor of the theater, Jones argues that the West was a crucial stage that framed the performance of the American character as an independent, resourceful, resilient, and rugged individual. The leading actor was the all-conquering masculine hunter hero, the sharpshooting man of the wilderness who tamed and claimed the West with each provident step. Women were also a significant part of the story, treading the game trails as plucky adventurers and resilient homesteaders and acting out their exploits in autobiographical accounts and stage shows.Epiphany in the Wilderness informs various academic debates surrounding the frontier period, including the construction of nature as a site of personal challenge, gun culture, gender adaptations and the crafting of the masculine wilderness hero figure, wildlife management and consumption, memorializing and trophy-taking, and the juxtaposition of a closing frontier with an emerging conservation movement."
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