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Buffalo Bill on stage /

Between 1872 and 1886, before he achieved acclaim for his Wild West show, ""Buffalo Bill"" led a troupe of traveling actors known as a Combination across the country performing in frontier melodramas. Biographies of William Frederick Cody rarely address these fourteen rather obsc...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Sagala, Sandra K.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2008.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Setting the stage
  • Treading the boards
  • Wild times with Wild Bill
  • Border life onstage
  • First scalp for Custer
  • Incidents and accidents
  • Sir Cody, knight of the plains
  • Rescuer of the prairie waif
  • Exit stage right
  • Finale
  • Appendix 1 : character lists and program notes for Buffalo Bill's dramas
  • Appendix 2 : Buffalo Bill combination's cities and dates
  • Appendix 3 : newspaper sources.