Life in a Wild West Show
Title | Life in a Wild West Show PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Currie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781560063520 |
Discusses life in a Wild West show, including its origins, the show content, the performers, its relation to Native Americans, moving the show, daily life, and the death of the Wild West.
The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West
Title | The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West PDF eBook |
Author | Candy Vyvey Moulton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Provides period information on clothes and accessories, food, architecture, medicine, education, communications, crime, and money.
Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull
Title | Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull PDF eBook |
Author | Bobby Bridger |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 510 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780292709171 |
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.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Title | Buffalo Bill's Wild West PDF eBook |
Author | Joy S. Kasson |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 459 |
Release | 2015-12-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1466895373 |
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.
Wild West Shows
Title | Wild West Shows PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Reddin |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780252067877 |
The Wild West: a term that conjures up pictures of wagon trains, unspoiled prairies, Indians, rough 'n' ready cowboys, roundups, and buffalo herds. Where did this collection of images come from? Paul Reddin exposes the mythology of the American frontier as a carefully crafted product of the Wild West show. Focusing on such pivotal figures as George Catlin, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Tom Mix, Reddin traces the rise and fall of a popular entertainment shaped out of the "raw material of America." Buffalo Bill and other entertainers capitalized on public fascination with the danger, heroism, and courage associated with the frontier by continually modifying their presentation of the West to suit their audiences. Thus the Wild West show, contrary to its own claims of accuracy and authenticity, was highly selective in its representations of the West as well as widely influential in shaping the public image of life on the Great Plains. A uniquely American entertainment--colorful, energetic, unabashed, and, as Reddin demonstrates, self-made--the Wild West show exerted an appeal that was all but irresistible to a public hovering uncertainly between industrial progress and nostalgia for a romanticized past.
Gabriel Dumont's Wild West Show
Title | Gabriel Dumont's Wild West Show PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Marc Dalpé |
Publisher | Talonbooks |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2021-02 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9781772013191 |
Gabriel Dumont's Wild West Show is a flamboyant epic, constructed as a series of tableaux, about the struggles of the Métis in the Canadian West. It is a multilayered and entertaining saga with a rodeo vibe, loosely based on Buffalo Bill's legendary outdoor travelling show. The creative team behind Gabriel Dumont's Wild West Show includes ten authors, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, French- and English-speaking men and women.
Presenting Buffalo Bill
Title | Presenting Buffalo Bill PDF eBook |
Author | Candace Fleming |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2016-09-20 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1596437634 |
Everyone knows the name Buffalo Bill, but few these days know what he did or, in some cases, didn't do. Was he a Pony Express rider? Did he serve Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn? Did he scalp countless Native Americans, or did he defend their rights? This, the first significant biography of Buffalo Bill Cody for younger readers in many years, explains it all. With copious archival illustrations and a handsome design, Presenting Buffalo Bill makes the great showman come alive for new generations. Extensive back matter, bibliography, and source notes complete the package. This title has Common Core connections.