Author: Frank C. CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Stirring Lives of Buffalo Bill, Colonel Wm. F. Cody, Last of the Great Scouts, and Pawnee Bill, Major Gordon W. Lillie, White Chief of the Pawnees ...
Author: Frank C. CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill
Author: Don RussellPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806115375
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Attempts to discern the truths behind the legends built up around his career.
The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide
Author: Buffalo BillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Buffalo Bill Cody
Author: Robert A. CarterPublisher: Castle Books
ISBN: 9780785820376
Category : Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This sweeping biography gives us a compelling look at the flamboyant, generous man the Indians called "Long Hair" and the rest of America called the "P. T. Barnum of the American West".
Four Years in Europe with Buffalo Bill
Author: Charles Eldridge GriffinPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080323466X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody was the entertainment industry's first international celebrity, achieving worldwide stardom with his traveling Wild West show. For three decades he operated and appeared in various incarnations of "the western world's greatest traveling attraction," enthralling audiences around the globe. When the show reached Europe it was a sensation, igniting "Wild West fever" by offering what purported to be a genuine experience of the American frontier.
American Endurance
Author: Richard A. SerranoPublisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588345769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Richard A. Serrano's new book American Endurance: Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West is history, mystery, and Western all rolled into one. In June 1893, nine cowboys raced across a thousand miles of American prairie to the Chicago World's Fair. For two weeks they thundered past angry sheriffs, governors, and Humane Society inspectors intent on halting their race. Waiting for them at the finish line was Buffalo Bill Cody, who had set up his Wild West Show right next to the World's Fair that had refused to allow his exhibition at the fair. The Great Cowboy Race occurred at a pivotal moment in our nation's history: many believed the frontier was settled and the West was no more. The Chicago World's Fair represented the triumph of modernity and the end of the cowboy age. Except no one told the cowboys. Racing toward Buffalo Bill Cody and the gold-plated Colt revolver he promised to the first to reach his arena, nine men went on a Wild West stampede from tiny Chadron, Nebraska, to bustling Chicago. But at the first thud of hooves pounding on Chicago's brick pavement, the race devolved into chaos. Some of the cowboys shipped their horses part of the way by rail, or hired private buggies. One had the unfair advantage of having helped plan the route map in the first place. It took three days, numerous allegations, and a good old Western showdown to sort out who was first to Chicago, and who won the Great Cowboy Race.
Wild Bill-McCanles Tragedy (illustrated)
Author: Nebraska State Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
To the Frontier
Author: Elizabeth Cody KimmelPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780060291174
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After the death of his brother, eight-year-old Bill Cody and his family set out from Iowa to make a new home for themselves in the volatile Kansas Territory.
Burs Under the Saddle
Author: Ramon Frederick AdamsPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806121703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
"This immense book, by a noted bibliographer of the West, is beyond question the fairest, most complete and most learned evaluation of printed references to western outlaws to appear until now....It will stand for many years, solid as a rock amid the flooding maelstrom of western myth and legend, pointing up the truth about those men of the past who lived by their wits and their guns. It will be impossible for anyone studying that era and such men to do so without reference to this volume."—Los Angeles Times "Adams turns again to the books and histories of the western gunmen and outlaws and critically examines 425 titles, most of which rate as ’burs’ under his saddle. Ramon Adams’ plea is that the writers must stop compounding each other’s errors into legend. In this book, with great skill and without malice, he has pointed out past mistakes. His book should be in the essential baggage of every writer on western outlaws and on every library shelf."—American West "The value of this book to writers and historians of the badman tradition cannot be overestimated, for Adams has replaced rumors, myths, and falsehoods with documented historical facts. It is a book for all conscientious students of and writers on the American West; henceforth, any writer of ’authentic Western history’ who refuses to check with Adams should be, as the judge said to Billy the Kid in one legend, 'hanged by the neck until dead, dead, dead.'"—Southwest Review
Story of the Wild West and Camp-fire Chats
Author: Buffalo BillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description