Life In A Wild West Show
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Gabriel Dumont s Wild West Show
Author | : Jean Marc Dalpé,David Granger,Laura Lussier,Alexis Martin,Andrea Menard,Yvette Nolan,Gilles Poulin-Denis,Paula-Jean Prudat,Mansel Robinson,Kenneth T Williams |
Publsiher | : Talonbooks |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2021-02 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1772013196 |
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Gabriel Dumont's Wild West Show is a flamboyant epic, constructed as a series of tableaux, about the struggles of the Métis in the Canadian West. It is a multilayered and entertaining saga with a rodeo vibe, loosely based on Buffalo Bill's legendary outdoor travelling show. The creative team behind Gabriel Dumont's Wild West Show includes ten authors, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, French- and English-speaking men and women.
Life in a Wild West Show
Author | : Stephen Currie |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1560063521 |
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Discusses life in a Wild West show, including its origins, the show content, the performers, its relation to Native Americans, moving the show, daily life, and the death of the Wild West.
Presenting Buffalo Bill
Author | : Candace Fleming |
Publsiher | : Roaring Brook Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-09-20 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781626727472 |
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Everyone 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.
Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull
Author | : Bobby Bridger |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 029270917X |
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Army scout, buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, and impresario of the world-renowned "Wild West Show," William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody lived the real American West and also helped create the "West of the imagination." Born in 1846, he took part in the great westward migration, hunted the buffalo, and made friends among the Plains Indians, who gave him the name Pahaska (long hair). But as the frontier closed and his role in "winning the West" passed into legend, Buffalo Bill found himself becoming the symbol of the destruction of the buffalo and the American Indian. Deeply dismayed, he spent the rest of his life working to save the remaining buffalo and to preserve Plains Indian culture through his Wild West shows. This biography of William Cody focuses on his lifelong relationship with Plains Indians, a vital part of his life story that, surprisingly, has been seldom told. Bobby Bridger draws on many historical accounts and Cody's own memoirs to show how deeply intertwined Cody's life was with the Plains Indians. In particular, he demonstrates that the Lakota and Cheyenne were active cocreators of the Wild West shows, which helped them preserve the spiritual essence of their culture in the reservation era while also imparting something of it to white society in America and Europe. This dual story of Buffalo Bill and the Plains Indians clearly reveals how one West was lost, and another born, within the lifetime of one remarkable man.
The Writer s Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West
Author | : Candy Vyvey Moulton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UVA:X004289652 |
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Provides period information on clothes and accessories, food, architecture, medicine, education, communications, crime, and money.
Native Performers in Wild West Shows
Author | : Linda Scarangella McNenly |
Publsiher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2015-04-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780806149806 |
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Now that the West is no longer so wild, it’s easy to dismiss Buffalo Bill Cody’s world-famous Wild West shows as promoters of stereotypes and clichés. But looking at this unique American genre from the Native American point of view provides thought-provoking new perspectives. Focusing on the experiences of Native performers and performances, Linda Scarangella McNenly begins her examination of these spectacles with Buffalo Bill’s 1880s pageants. She then traces the continuing performance of these acts, still a feature of regional celebrations in both Canada and the United States—and even at Euro Disney. Drawing on interviews with contemporary performers and descendants of twentieth-century performers, McNenly elicits insider perspectives to suggest new interpretations of their performances and experiences; she also uses these insights to analyze archival materials, especially photographs. Some Native performers saw Wild West shows not necessarily as demeaning, but rather as opportunities—for travel, for employment, for recognition, and for the preservation and expression of important cultural traditions. Other Native families were able to guide their own careers and even create their own Wild West shows. Today, Native performers at Buffalo Bill Days in Sheridan, Wyoming, wear their own regalia and choreograph their own performances. Through dancing and music, they express their own vision of a contemporary Native identity based on powwow cultures. Proud of their skills and successes, Native performers at Euro Disney are establishing promising careers. The effects of colonialism are undeniable, yet McNenly’s study reveals how these Native peoples have adapted and re-created Wild West shows to express their own identities and to advance their own goals.
Wild West Shows
Author | : Paul Reddin |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0252067878 |
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The Wild West: a term that conjures up pictures of wagon trains, unspoiled prairies, Indians, rough 'n' ready cowboys, roundups, and buffalo herds. Where did this collection of images come from? Paul Reddin exposes the mythology of the American frontier as a carefully crafted product of the Wild West show. Focusing on such pivotal figures as George Catlin, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Tom Mix, Reddin traces the rise and fall of a popular entertainment shaped out of the "raw material of America." Buffalo Bill and other entertainers capitalized on public fascination with the danger, heroism, and courage associated with the frontier by continually modifying their presentation of the West to suit their audiences. Thus the Wild West show, contrary to its own claims of accuracy and authenticity, was highly selective in its representations of the West as well as widely influential in shaping the public image of life on the Great Plains. A uniquely American entertainment--colorful, energetic, unabashed, and, as Reddin demonstrates, self-made--the Wild West show exerted an appeal that was all but irresistible to a public hovering uncertainly between industrial progress and nostalgia for a romanticized past.
Wildest Lives of the Wild West
Author | : John Richard Stephens |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2016-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781493024445 |
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By and about the greatest celebrities of frontier America, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony. These glimpses into the worlds of these legendary figures as they describe their own personal experiences, impressions, what life in the frontier West was like, reveal the roles they played in notable events in American history.