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Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History. By Joy S. Kasson. New York: Hill & Wang, 2000; pp. 319. $26.00 hardcover.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2001

Roger A. Hall
Roger A. Hall
Affiliation:
James Madison University
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Abstract

William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody and his Wild West show have not wanted for ink. There are Cody's own autobiographical accounts of his frontier and his theatrical adventures, Don Russell's well-researched standards on Cody's life and the Wild West shows, Sarah Blackstone's examination of the economic basis of the Wild West show in general, Joseph G. Rosa and Robin May's pictorial biography of Cody, Paul Reddin's overview of Wild West images, and a host of other, related books. In fact, there have been so many books written about “Buffalo Bill” Cody and Wild West shows, it is somewhat remarkable that Joy Kasson has found such a productive new angle on the western hero and his dramatic presentations.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS
Information
Theatre Survey , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , November 2001 , pp. 226 - 228
Copyright
© 2001 The American Society for Theatre Research, Inc.

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