Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History, Paperback - Joy S. Kasson

Reducere. DescriptionA fascinating analysis of the first famous American to erase the boundary between real history and entertainmentCanada, and Europe. Crow...

Reducere. When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. W...

Description"You are a very, very clever little girl." -- Queen Victoria to Annie OakleyHer life was the stuff of legend -- from humble Quaker origi...

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Reducere. On March 30, 1891--less than four months after the military suppression of the Lakota Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee, South Dakota--twenty-three Lakot...

Reducere. 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...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Timothy RennerWhether presented comedically in popular culture or explored as a serious scientific curiosity, giant, hairy,...

Reducere. DescriptionTucker has masterfully inked a compelling tribute to a woman named Cathy Williams. Prince George's Sentinel, Maryland The unforgettable ...

Description'Remembering Popular Music's Past' capitalises on the growing interest, globally, in the preservation of popular music's material past a...

Reducere. Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckie's The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African Americ...

Reducere. *Includes biographies of each famous Western icon. *Discusses the mysteries and legends of their famous lives and deaths. *Comprehensively covers l...

Reducere. From its launch in 1945, Ebony magazine was politically and socially influential. However, the magazine also played an important role in educating ...

Reducere. The Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served in the Regular Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in some of the most dif...

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Reducere. There's a reason why the Wild West is called as such. History will give you some pretty good (but lengthy) explanations. The purpose of this educat...

Reducere. On 14 May 1804, one Captain Meriwether Lewis and his companion William Clark led a thirty-three-man expedition to the new lands of Louisiana. 8, 00...

Reducere. Of all the Old West figures whose images eventually found their way into our popular culture, none was better known than Wild Bill Hickok. This boo...

Reducere. Tells the story of the African American soldiers known as the Buffalo Soldiers, who fought against American Indians and protected the Western Front...

DescriptionIn this remarkable work, Reiner Sch rmann shows Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century Christian mystic, as the great teacher of the bi...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Wild West is infamous for its outrageous stories, cowboys, and gun battles. But the region is also known for its ghost stories, unex...

Old West gunfighters will always fascinate a large segment of our population. From the pages of this book (and its 43 stories) spring the grit and ...

Reducere. Did you know that most Western lawmen were criminals themselves?Many of the most well-known lawmen of the American Wild West had multiple criminal ...

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Reducere. Come peek between the covers for an intimate look at the lives of women of the Old West. Once "fallen" or widowed, a woman had few options and almo...

The story of the six extraordinary hostesses who shaped British society in the inter-war years: Lady Astor, Lady Colefax, Lady Londonderry, Lady Cu...

Reducere. Buffalo Dope, the debut from Joseph Sigurdson, is a dark comedy novel about Bobby Washburn, a weed dealer who lives with his mom. When Bobby and hi...

Reducere. From Calamity Jane's relentless pursuit of Wild Bill Hickok to Emma Walters, who gave it all up for the dashing Bat Masterson--and learned to regre...

An exploration of the influence of gender on the workings of memory in the Middle Ages, focussing on the non-elite.Illustrations: No

Reducere. A Horse's TaleBy Mark Twain1907A Horse's Tale is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buff...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edmund S. MorganThis book makes the provocative case here that America has remained politically stable because the Founding...

If you want to discover the captivating life of Annie Oakley, then keep reading...How could Annie Oakley, a woman of barely 110 pounds with a child...

Reducere. In the decades following the Civil War, scores of African Americans served in the U.S. Army in the West. The Plains Indians dubbed them buffalo sol...

Reducere. The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the ...

Reducere. Anthony AwardsWith a new First Family, White House executive chef Olivia Paras can't afford to make any mistakes. But when a box of take-out chicke...

Reducere. Bringing Down the Mountains provides insight into how mountaintop removal has affected the people and the land of southern West Virginia. It examin...

Jesse James and other infamous outlaws were part of a larger organization, centuries old, that has affected U.S. history from the small, rural stre...

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Reducere. Wild West Women features the true stories of the pioneering wives, mothers, daughters, teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists who shaped the...