Who more than Buffalo Bill symbolizes the American West? William Frederick Cody (1846-1917) personified, packaged, and perpetuated the myth of the Wild West. This lively biography documents fully the events of his extraordinary career as a buffalo hunter, army scout, freighter, and guide on the Great Plains, and as a showman on two continents. More than 150 fully captioned historic photographs--many never before published--depict Buffalo Bill from his childhood days to his reign as a superlative actor and producer whose Wild West remains unique in the annals of show business. This volume preserves the color and spectacle of a bygone era--and, best of all, shows that that the real and heroic figure rivals the invented and legendary Buffalo Bill.
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"This fascinating picture of Cody's life, times, and contributions should have a great deal of popular appeal."--David Dary, author of Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries and The Buffalo Book
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Joseph G. Rosa is the author of Wild Bill Hickok: The Man and His Myth, They Called Him Wild Bill: The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok, Alias Jack McCall, The Gunfighter: Man or Myth?, The West of Wild Bill Hickok, Guns of the American West, Colt Revolvers and the Tower of London, and Age of the Gunfighter: Men and Weapons on the Frontier, 1840-1900. He is coauthor of The West From Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee: The Turbulent Story of the Settling of Frontier America, The Pleasure of Guns, Gun Law: A Study of Violence in the Wild West, Cowboy: The Man and the Myth, and Rowdy Joe Lowe: Gambler with a Gun.
Robin May is the author of The Gold Rushes and Daniel Boone and the American West, and has also been a professional actor.
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Buffalo Bill, Wild West, New York, Annie Oakley, United States, Sitting Bull, North Platte, Wild Bill, Johnny Baker, Pawnee Bill, Texas Jack, Nate Salsbury, Queen Victoria, Fort Hays, Red Shirt, Courtesy Scout's Rest Ranch, Courtesy Kansas State Historical Society, Deadwood Stage, Earl's Court, Fifth Cavalry, Don Russell, Prince of Wales, Staten Island, Fort Wallace, Lillian Smith New!
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Buffalo Bill, Wild West, New York, Annie Oakley, United States, Sitting Bull, North Platte, Wild Bill, Johnny Baker, Pawnee Bill, Texas Jack, Nate Salsbury, Queen Victoria, Fort Hays, Red Shirt, Courtesy Scout's Rest Ranch, Courtesy Kansas State Historical Society, Deadwood Stage, Earl's Court, Fifth Cavalry, Don Russell, Prince of Wales, Staten Island, Fort Wallace, Lillian Smith New!
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- The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill by Don Russell on 5 pages
- Annie Oakley by Courtney Ryley Cooper on 4 pages
- They Called Him Wild Bill: The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok by Joseph G. Rosa in Front Matter, page 61, and Back Matter
- Last Stand (Silhouette Special Edition) by W. Richard West on page 133, and page 147
- Sitting Bull (Collections Litterature) (French Edition) by Robert Utley on page 170, and Back Matter
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- Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History by Joy S. Kasson on 4 pages
- Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906 (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) by Roger A. Hall in Back Matter
- Outside America: Race, Ethnicity, and the Role of the American West in National Belonging (Reencounters with Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas) by Dan Moos in Back Matter
- Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express by Christopher Corbett in Back Matter
- Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express by Christopher Corbett in Back Matter
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