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Author: Jeff Barnes
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2014-02-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0811759113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGuide to residences, forts, battlefields, and other sites that interpret Buffalo Bill's life on the Great Plains.
Author: Jeff Barnes
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780811734967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn up-to-date guide to the critical forts of the Indian campaigns of the late 19th century. Recounts the integral role of 51 forts during the decades of warfare with the Plains Indian tribes and tells of the posts fates after the Indian wars, providing narrative vignettes of incidents or points of historical importance. It also provides directions and visitor information for the following states: Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming.
Author: Joy S. Kasson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 1466895373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuffalo 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.
Author: Jeff Barnes
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0811708365
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Very comprehensive and authoritative." --Robert M. Utley, author of Cavalier in Buckskin "Jeff Barnes has really done his research. . . . Highly recommended." --James Donovan, author of A Terrible Glory Guide to forts, military posts, battlefields, and other sites that interpret George Armstrong Custer's decade of operations on the Great Plains Locations in Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana Extended section on Little Bighorn Each entry includes directions, amenities, contact information, and recommended reading
Author: Buffalo Bill
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lew Freedman
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2020-09-17
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1476640068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917) rose from humble origins in Iowa to become one of the most famous and most photographed people in the world. He became a leading scout during the American Indian Wars, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, and a renowned show business fixture whose traveling Wild West exhibitions played to millions of spectators the world over for 30 years. He hobnobbed with presidents, kings, queens and European heads of state, befriending many legendary individuals of the West, from General George Armstrong Custer and Sitting Bull to Wild Bill Hickok and Annie Oakley. Aside from these achievements, Cody's most important legacy may be how he shaped the world's enduring views of the American West through his shows, which he considered to be educational events rather than entertainment. This biography is a fresh look at the life of Buffalo Bill.
Author: Candace Fleming
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2016-09-20
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1596437634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEveryone 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.
Author: Louis S. Warren
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 674
ISBN-13: 030742510X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the most famous American of his age. He claimed to have worked for the Pony Express when only a boy and to have scouted for General George Custer. But what was his real story? And how did a frontiersman become a worldwide celebrity? In this prize-winning biography, acclaimed author Louis S. Warren explains not only how Cody exaggerated his real experience as an army scout and buffalo hunter, but also how that experience inspired him to create the gigantic, traveling spectacle known as Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. A dazzling mix of Indians, cowboys, and vaqueros, they performed on two continents for three decades, offering a surprisingly modern view of the United States and a remarkably democratic version of its history. This definitive biography reveals the genius of America’s greatest showman, and the startling history of the American West that drove him and his performers to the world stage.
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Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1496238125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert B. Pickering
Publisher: Johnson Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 178
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe birth of a white buffalo calf in Wisconsin in 1994 inspired the author to research the historical, spiritual, and biological significance of the white buffalo. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
