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William Cody (1846—1917), a.k.a. Buffalo Bill, was the most

famous American of his age. A child of the frontier Great Plains,

Cody was renowned as a Pony Express rider, prospector, trapper,

Civil War soldier, professional buffalo hunter, Indian fighter,

cavalry scout, horseman, dime-novel hero, and actor. But Buffalo

Bill’s greatest success was as impresario of the Wild West show,

the traveling company of cowboys, Indians, Mexican vaqueros, and

others, numbering in the hundreds, with which he toured North

America and Europe for more than three decades. As Louis S. Warren

reveals, the show company came to represent America itself, its

dazzling mix of races sprung from a frontier past, welded into a

thrilling performance, and making their way through the world via

the modern technologies of railroad, portable electrical generator,

telephones, and brilliantly colored publicity–an entrancing vision

of the frontier-born, newly mechanized, polyglot United States in

the Gilded Age.

Biographers have long disputed whether Cody was a hero or a

charlatan. As Warren shows, the question already preoccupied

critics and spectators during Cody’s own lifetime. In fact, the

savvy entertainer encouraged the dispute by mingling fictional

exploits with his not inconsiderable achievements to construct the

persona of an ideal frontiersman, a figure who was more

controversial than has been commonly understood. At the same time,

his show provided a means for rural westerners, including cowboys,

cowgirls, and especially Lakota Sioux Indians, to claim a new

future for themselves by reenacting a version of the past.

The most comprehensive critical biography of William Cody in more

than forty years, Buffalo Bill’s America places America’s

most renowned showman in the context of his cultural worlds in the

Far West, in the East, and in Europe. A rich and revealing

biography and social history of an American cultural icon.

PART ONE

One: Pony Express

Two: The Attack on the Settler’s Cabin

Three: The Village . . . The Cyclone

Four: With the Prince of Pistoleers

Five: Guide and Scout

Six: Buffalo Hunt

PART TWO

Seven: Theater Star

Eight: Indians, Horses

Nine: Domesticating the Wild West

Ten: The Drama of Civilization: Visual Play and Moral

Ambiguity

Eleven: Wild West London

Interlude: Broncho Charlie Miller

Twelve: Wild West Europe

Thirteen: Ghost Dance

Interlude: Standing

Bear

Fourteen: Cowboys, Indians, and the Artful

Deceptions of Race

Fifteen: Buffalo Bill’s America

Interlude: The

Johnson Brothers

PART THREE

Sixteen: Empire of the Home

Seventeen: Showdown in Cheyenne

Interlude: Adele

Von Ohl Parker

Eighteen: End of the Trail

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Louis S. Warren is W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western

U.S. History at the University of California, Davis. He is the

author of The Hunter’s Game: Poachers and Conservationists in

Twentieth-Century America, which won the Western Heritage Award

for Outstanding Nonfiction Book, 1998, awarded by the National

Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center.

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William Cody (1846—1917), a.k.a. Buffalo Bill, was the most famous American of his age. A child of the frontier Great Plains, Cody was renowned as a Pony Express rider, prospector, trapper, Civil War soldier, professional buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, cavalry scout, horseman, dime-novel hero, and actor. But Buffalo Bill’s greatest success was as impresario of the Wild West show, the traveling company of cowboys, Indians, Mexican vaqueros, and others, numbering in the hundreds, with which he toured North America and Europe for more than three decades. As Louis S. Warren reveals, the show company came to represent America itself, its dazzling mix of races sprung from a frontier past, welded into a thrilling performance, and making their way through the world via the modern technologies of railroad, portable electrical generator, telephones, and brilliantly colored publicity–an entrancing vision of the frontier-born, newly mechanized, polyglot United States in the Gilded Age.

Biographers have long disputed whether Cody was a hero or a charlatan. As Warren shows, the question already preoccupied critics and spectators during Cody’s own lifetime. In fact, the savvy entertainer encouraged the dispute by mingling fictional exploits with his not inconsiderable achievements to construct the persona of an ideal frontiersman, a figure who was more controversial than has been commonly understood. At the same time, his show provided a means for rural westerners, including cowboys, cowgirls, and especially Lakota Sioux Indians, to claim a new future for themselves by reenacting a version of the past.

The most comprehensive critical biography of William Cody in more than forty years, Buffalo Bill’s America places America’s most renowned showman in the context of his cultural worlds in the Far West, in the East, and in Europe. A rich and revealing biography and social history of an American cultural icon.