William F. Cody Series on the History and Culture of the American West – serie
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America's Best Female Sharpshooter
The Rise and Fall of Lillian Frances Smith
Inbunden, 2017
368 kr
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Today, most remember ""California Girl"" Lillian Frances Smith (1871-1930) as Annie Oakley's chief competitor in the small world of the Wild West shows' female shooters. But the two women were quite different: Oakley's conservative ""prairie beauty"" persona clashed with Smith's tendency to wear …
Popular Frontier
Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Transnational Mass Culture
Inbunden, 2017
410 kr
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When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. With its colorful portrayal of cowboys, Indians, and the taming of the North American frontier, Buffalo Bill's Wild West popularized a myth of American …
Pioneers of Promotion
How Press Agents for Buffalo Bill, P. T. Barnum, and the World's Columbian Exposition Created Modern Marketing
Av Joe Dobrow
Inbunden, 2018
383 kr
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The average American today is bombarded with as many as 5,000 advertisements a day. The sophisticated and persuasive marketing tactics that companies use may seem a recent phenomenon, but Pioneers of Promotion tells a different story. In this lively narrative, business history writer Joe Dobrow …
Art and Advertising in Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Inbunden, 2019
528 kr
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William F. ""Buffalo Bill"" Cody, star of the American West, began his journey to fame at age twenty-three, when he met writer Ned Buntline. The pulp novels Buntline later penned were loosely based on Cody's scouting and bison-hunting adventures and sparked a national sensation. Other writers …
Frontiers of Boyhood
Imagining America, Past and Future
Inbunden, 2020
414 kr
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When Horace Greeley published his famous imperative, ""Go West, young man, and grow up with the country,"" the frontier was already synonymous with a distinctive type of idealized American masculinity. But Greeley's exhortation also captured popular sentiment surrounding changing ideas of American …
America's Best Female Sharpshooter
The Rise and Fall of Lillian Frances Smith
Häftad, 2020
263 kr
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Today, most remember ""California Girl"" Lillian Frances Smith (1871-1930) as Annie Oakley's chief competitor in the small world of the Wild West shows' female shooters. But the two women were quite different: Oakley's conservative ""prairie beauty"" persona clashed with Smith's tendency to wear …
American Dude Ranch
A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West
Av Lynn Downey
Häftad, 2022
242 kr
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Viewers of films and television shows might imagine the dude ranch as something not quite legitimate, a place where city dwellers pretend to be cowboys in amusingly inauthentic fashion. But the tradition of the dude ranch, America’s original western vacation, is much more interesting and deeply …
Frontiers of Boyhood
Imagining America, Past and Future
Häftad, 2022
226 kr
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When Horace Greeley published his famous imperative, “Go West, young man, and grow up with the country,” the frontier was already synonymous with a distinctive type of idealized American masculinity. But Greeley’s exhortation also captured popular sentiment surrounding changing ideas of American …
Lakota Performers in Europe Volume 3
Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind
Häftad, 2025
367 kr
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From April to November 1935 in Belgium, fifteen Lakotas enacted their culture on a world stage. Wearing beaded moccasins and eagle-feather headdresses, they set up tepees, danced, and demonstrated marksmanship and horse taming for the twenty million visitors to the Brussels International …
Popular Frontier Volume 4
Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Transnational Mass Culture
Häftad, 2026
336 kr
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When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. With its colorful portrayal of cowboys, Indians, and the taming of the North American frontier, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West popularized a myth of American …
Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen
The Films of William F. Cody
Inbunden, 2013
304 kr
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For more than thirty years, William F. ""Buffalo Bill"" Cody entertained audiences across the United States and Europe with his Wild West show. Scores of books have been written about Cody's fabled career as a showman, but his involvement in the film industry - following the dissolution of his …
