"A collection of historic Buffalo photos from 1890 through 1939" -- from page [1] book dust jacket.

Prepare for a dazzling trip down memory lane. The book includes about 150 columns penned by the late George Kunz, slices-of-life that touch on everything from the Piece Arrow and Vaudeville days, to afternoons at Offermann Stadium and tales of Buffalo during the Great Depression. It's a 344-page treasure trove of nostalgia supplemented with dozens of photographs and vintage cartoons. Published by Canisius College Press, Buffalo Memories casts a brilliant spotlight on the region's proud past.

Memories of life among the Indians, ed. and with an introduction by K. C. Seele.

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.

If South Buffalo is part of your history or you are a part of it now, this is a great book for you: It touches on all of the South Buffalo areas and is guaranteed to have something interesting for every reader. Memories will flood in - Guaranteed!