Essays and illustrations explore the image of the frontier, examining Frederick Jackson Turner and Buffalo Bill's accounts of westward expansion and how these stories evolved in the 20th century.
Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White …
The Wild West in England
by Christianson, Frank, Buffalo Bill
fromPapers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
The Wild West in England
by Christianson, Frank, Buffalo Bill
fromPapers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
The Wild West in England
by Christianson, Frank, Buffalo Bill
fromPapers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
Cody describes his Wild West Show in England, sharing performances for British nobility and royalty, press coverage, and his role as an ambassador of American culture.
The Wild West in England
by Christianson, Frank, Buffalo Bill
fromPapers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody