Buffalo Bill's America : William Cody and the Wild West Show / Louis S. Warren

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Contents: I: Pony express -- The attack on the settler's cabin -- The village...the cyclone -- With the prince of pistoleers -- Guide and scout -- Buffalo hunt -- II: Theater star -- Indians, horses -- Domesticating the wild west -- The drama of civilization: visual play and moral ambiguity -- Wild west London -- Broncho Charlie Miller -- Wild west Europe -- Ghost dance -- Standing bear -- Cowboys, Indians, and the artful deceptions of race -- Buffalo Bill's America -- The Johnson brothers -- III: Empire of the home -- Showdown in Cheyenne -- Adele Von Ohl Parker -- End of the trail

2005

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