William 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.
關於作者：
Louis S. Warren took his B.A. at Columbia University and his
M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. at Yale University. He has taught at Yale,
University of San Diego, and, since 1999, at the University of
California, Davis, where he is currently Associate Professor of
History. He is the author of The Hunter''s Game: Poachers and
Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America 1997, which won
the 1997 Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Book,
and several articles. His article on "Cody''s Last Stand" in the
Western Historical Quarterly won the Oscar O. Winther Award for
best article 2003.
目錄：
Introduction
PART ONE
One: Pony Express
Two: The Attack on the Settler’s Cabin
Three: The Village . . . The Cyclone
Four: With the Prince of Pistoleers
Five: Guide and Scout
Six: Buffalo Hunt
PART TWO
Seven: Theater Star
Eight: Indians, Horses
Nine: Domesticating the Wild West
Ten: The Drama of Civilization: Visual Play and Moral
Ambiguity
Eleven: Wild West London
Interlude: Broncho Charlie Miller
Twelve: Wild West Europe
Thirteen: Ghost Dance
Interlude: Standing Bear
Fourteen: Cowboys, Indians, and the Artful Deceptions of
Race
Fifteen: Buffalo Bill’s America
Interlude: The Johnson Brothers
PART THREE
Sixteen: Empire of the Home
Seventeen: Showdown in Cheyenne
Interlude: Adele Von Ohl Parker
Eighteen: End of the Trail
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
From the Hardcover edition.
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