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ISBN 13 : 9780756955977
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (559 download)
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Author : Alison Hart
Publisher : American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781584857174
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Danger at the Wild West Show written by Alison Hart and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Rose sets out to prove her brother's innocence when he is accused of shooting a politician during a Wild West show performance in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1886.
Author : Jill Alison Hart Culby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Danger at the Wild West Show written by Jill Alison Hart Culby and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Currie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560063520
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (635 download)
Download or read book Life in a Wild West Show written by Stephen Currie and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Louis S. Warren
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030742510X
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Buffalo Bill's America written by Louis S. Warren and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Paul Reddin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067877
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (678 download)
Download or read book Wild West Shows written by Paul Reddin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Joy S. Kasson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466895373
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Buffalo Bill's Wild West written by Joy S. Kasson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buffalo 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 : Linda Scarangella McNenly
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806149809
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Native Performers in Wild West Shows written by Linda Scarangella McNenly and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Phil Carradice
Publisher : Gomer Press
ISBN 13 : 9781848516663
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (166 download)
Download or read book The Wild West Show written by Phil Carradice and published by Gomer Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Llyfr i blant 9-11 oed yn llawn cyffro'r Gorllewin Gwyllt ar strydoedd Caerdydd. Mae Sam Thomas yn dyheu am gael bod yn rhan o'r sioe a phrofi antur yr Indiaid a'r cowbois. Ond yn fuan iawn y mae Sam mewn perygl ... pwy all e ymddiried ynddyn nhw, ac a fydd yn llwyddo i gael lloches? -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Author : John W. Troutman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806150025
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Indian Blues written by John W. Troutman and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and manipulate those same policy initiatives. Why did the practice of music generate fear among government officials and opportunity for Native peoples? In this innovative study, John W. Troutman explores the politics of music at the turn of the twentieth century in three spheres: reservations, off-reservation boarding schools, and public venues such as concert halls and Chautauqua circuits. On their reservations, the Lakotas manipulated concepts of U.S. citizenship and patriotism to reinvigorate and adapt social dances, even while the federal government stepped up efforts to suppress them. At Carlisle Indian School, teachers and bandmasters taught music in hopes of imposing their “civilization” agenda, but students made their own meaning of their music. Finally, many former students, armed with saxophones, violins, or operatic vocal training, formed their own “all-Indian” and tribal bands and quartets and traversed the country, engaging the market economy and federal Indian policy initiatives on their own terms. While recent scholarship has offered new insights into the experiences of “show Indians” and evolving powwow traditions, Indian Blues is the first book to explore the polyphony of Native musical practices and their relationship to federal Indian policy in this important period of American Indian history.
Author : Wayne Swanson
Publisher : Annick Press
ISBN 13 : 9781550378368
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (783 download)
Download or read book Why the West Was Wild written by Wayne Swanson and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history shows just why, for a fifty year period in the 19th century, the American West was an extraordinary place. Dramatic storytelling are combined with engaging graphics and archival photographs.
Author : Mary-Ellen Kelm
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774820322
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book A Wilder West written by Mary-Ellen Kelm and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rodeo cowboy is one of the most evocative images of the Wild West. The master of the frontier, he is renowned for his masculinity, toughness, and skill. A Wilder West returns to rodeo's small-town roots to explore how rodeo simultaneously embodies and subverts our traditional understandings of power relations between man and nature, women and men, settlers and Aboriginal peoples. An important contact zone – a chaotic and unpredictable place of encounter – rodeo has challenged expected social hierarchies, bringing people together across racial and gender divides to create friendships, rivalries, and unexpected intimacies. At the rodeo, Aboriginal riders became local heroes, and rodeo queens spoke their minds. A Wilder West complicates the idea of western Canada as a “white man's country” and shows how rural rodeos have been communities in which different rules applied. Lavishly illustrated, this creative history will change the way we see the West's most controversial sport.
Author : Karen Kay
Publisher : PK&J Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Iron Wolf's Bride written by Karen Kay and published by PK&J Publishing. This book was released on with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I will return to you, my love… Jane Glenforest's father believed she was too young to marry, so he’d stolen her and her newborn son away from the handsome Assiniboine Indian she’d wed and taken her to Surrey, England. In spite of divorce papers and rumors he’s wed another, Jane’s never forgotten the man who’d stolen her heart and given her son legitimacy. When Buffalo Bill's Wild West show comes to England—bringing her ex-husband with it—Jane’s curious to see her lost love, in spite of her new fiancé. Although Iron Wolf's purpose in working for Bill Cody's Wild West show is to fulfill his father's vision to find and stop a deceiver, he fell in love with and married Jane Glenforest. But, no sooner had Jane given birth than her father stole her away. Now, a few years later, Iron Wolf is coming to England with the hope of rekindling the love he once knew with Jane. However, instead of love, he finds his wife loathes him, believing he has married another. And, when he discovers she is engaged to another man, he declares war on both her and the fiancé. But when their son is kidnapped, Jane and Iron Wolf must work together to rescue him. And, as danger escalates, they discover trusting each other might be the only way to save their son. Will Jane and Iron Wolf learn to forgive one another, to reignite the embers of a passion that never died, or will the lies of a deceiver destroy their love forever? Warning: Rediscovered love might cause sleepless nights spent in the arms of one's true love.
Author : J.R. Roberts
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1612324630
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Six-Gun Sideshow written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arnold Krupat
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803278934
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Heartsong of Charging Elk written by Arnold Krupat and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Welch was one of the central figures in twentieth-century American Indian literature, and The Heartsong of Charging Elk is of particular importance as the culminating novel in his canon. A historical novel, Heartsong follows a Lakota (Sioux) man at the end of the nineteenth century as he travels with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show; is left behind in Marseille, France; and then struggles to overcome many hardships, including a charge for murder. In this novel Welch conveys some of the lifeways and language of a traditional Sioux. Here for the first time is a literary companion to James Welch's Heartsong that includes an unpublished chapter of the first draft of the novel; selections from interviews with the auth∨ a memoir by the author's widow, Lois Welch; and essays by leading scholars in the field on a wide range of topics. The rich resources presented here make this volume an essential addition to the study of James Welch and twentieth-century Native American literature.
Author : John Richard Stephens
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493024442
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Wildest Lives of the Wild West written by John Richard Stephens and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Allen Lester Farnum
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780887404375
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Pawnee Bill's Historic Wild West written by Allen Lester Farnum and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1992 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 155 pristine negatives recently turned up in some forgotten storage. They were taken while the Wild West show was on tour between 1900 and 1905 by cowboy/amateur photographer Harry Bock. This is a photo documentary without parallel and offers western, historical, and tent show buffs a visual look back in time with exceptional detail and clarity.
