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9780809032433
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History
by Kasson, Joy S.
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- ISBN-13: 9780809032433
- ISBN: 0809032430
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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SUMMARY
A century ago, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show enthralled millions of spectators in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Billboards everywhere made William Cody, the show's originator and star, a world-renowned figure. Joy S. Kasson's important book shows how Cody's 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 American tradition.Kasson, Joy S. is the author of 'Buffalo Bill's Wild West Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History' with ISBN 9780809032433 and ISBN 0809032430.
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