Buffalo Bill Cody, A Man of the West, Prentiss Ingraham
Автор: Stephens John Richard Название: The Wildest Lives of the Wild West: America Through the Words of Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, and Other Famous Westerners ISBN: 1493024434 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493024438 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 17430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: By and about the greatest celebrities of the Wild West, 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 Wild West was like, reveal the roles they played in notable events in American history.
Автор: Ingraham Prentiss Название: Buffalo Bill Cody, a Man of the West ISBN: 0700627626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700627622 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 23400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Buffalo Bill Cody was bigger than life. He was also braver, handsomer, and kinder—in short, just about perfect, as any reader of Prentiss Ingraham's dime novels could tell you. Along with his nearly 600 novels and plays, Ingraham (1843–1904), Confederate colonel and mercenary, penned a biography of his hero. The Buffalo Bill Cody who emerges from this book is not so very different from the paragon in Ingraham's novels, but as Cody's close companion, Ingraham had the inside story on this iconic figure of the American West. Add to that the dime novel-writer's bravura style, and Ingraham's Buffalo Bill Cody: A Man of the West becomes an irresistible work of Americana, in many ways an apt portrait of its larger-than-life subject. And because both men were firsthand witnesses to historic moments—the struggle between slavers and abolitionists, the Civil War, the building of the railroads, the Indian Wars, the golden age of circuses— - the biography offers a close-up perspective of life on the American frontier. Published here with an introduction and notes by Cody aficionado Sandra K. Sagala, who transcribed and edited the text of the biography from the original that was serialized in 1895 by Duluth Press, and illustrated with line drawings by one of Ingraham's contemporaries, Buffalo Bill Cody: A Man of the West is at once a unique view of an outsize figure of the Wild West, an original document of American history, and a performance as entertaining as any the self-styled cowboy and showman Buffalo Bill Cody ever staged.
Автор: Cody William F., Buffalo Bill, Buffalo Bill 1846-1917 Название: The Wild West in England ISBN: 080324388X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803243880 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 81840.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: William F. ""Buffalo Bill"" Cody was a shrewd self-promoter, showman, and entrepreneur. In 1888 he published a collection of biographies of four well-known American frontier figures. Cody contributed an abridged version of his autobiography with an addendum titled The Wild West in England, now available in this stand-alone annotated edition.
Автор: Carter Название: Buffalo Bill Cody - The Man Behind the Legend ISBN: 0471077801 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780471077800 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 22170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Written simply and gracefully, Buffalo Bill Cody explores the life behind this larger-than-life figure of the frontier, whose legendary exploits inspired hero worship among people of all ages. This is the first complete biography in over thirty years of Cody, the most intriguing buffalo hunter of his time.
Автор: Burke John M. Название: Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace ISBN: 0803243898 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803243897 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 81840.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Advance man, press agent, and publicist extraordinaire, John M. Burke (1842-1917) was instrumental in turning William F. Cody into the iconic persona of Buffalo Bill. And with this biography, published in 1893, Burke put the finishing touches on the legend that persists to this day.
Автор: Griffin Charles Eldridge Название: Four Years in Europe with Buffalo Bill ISBN: 0803234236 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803234239 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 36610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the entertainment industry’s first international celebrity, achieving worldwide stardom with his traveling Wild West show. For three decades he operated and appeared in various incarnations of “the western world’s greatest traveling attraction,” enthralling audiences around the globe. When the show reached Europe it was a sensation, igniting “Wild West fever” by offering what purported to be a genuine experience of the American frontier.
By any standard Charles Eldridge Griffin (1859–1914), manager of the Wild West’s European tour, was a remarkable man. Known by the stage names of Monsieur F. Le Costro, Professor Griffin, and the Yankee Yogi, he was an author, comedian, conjurer, contortionist, dancer, fire-eater, hypnotist, illusionist, lecturer, magician, newspaper owner, publisher, sword swallower, and yogi. His account of life on the road with the Wild West show, published here for the first time since its release in 1908, opens a window on a vanished world. In addition to line drawings and photographs from the original book, Chris Dixon provides an introduction and annotations for historical context. Griffin’s story of traveling with Buffalo Bill in Europe from 1903 to 1906 presents a fascinating picture of a quintessentially American character. At the same time it offers a vision of the nation on the verge of nationalism, imperialism, and an emerging global mass culture.
Hunting the buffalo and fighting Indians on the western frontier
For millennia the great herds of North American bison (or buffalo as they were popularly known) had roamed the continental heartland followed by the indigenous Indian tribes whose own existence in every sense depended upon them. After the American Civil War, as the new railroads pushed from ocean to ocean, the herds of buffalo came in closer proximity to the ever increasing numbers of settlers intent on fulfilling the 'manifest destiny' of the American people by crossing and populating the nation. Now the political and economic potential of intensively hunting the buffalo became apparent. So the buffalo hunter, a resourceful opportunist armed with a long rifle, appeared across the western wilderness. This book, a highly regarded classic on its subject, was written by a frontiersman buffalo hunter and graphically describes his life of the Great Plains. These hunters heralded not only the end of the great herds of buffalo, but also the demise of the traditional way of life for the Plains Indian tribes. So, inevitably, this book also relates the authors experiences as an Indian fighter particularly against the Comanches. Despite our contemporary understanding of these tragic events, John Cook's narrative provides an entertaining and thrilling insight into a life lived in the Wild West in its heyday.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
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