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Sorrow of the earth : Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the tragedy of show business / Eric Vuillard ; translation, Ann Jefferson.
Van Pelt Library PQ2682.U45 T7513 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vuillard, Éric, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Tristesse de la terre. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917--Fiction.
- Buffalo Bill.
- Sitting Bull, 1831-1890--Fiction.
- Sitting Bull.
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.
- Sitting Bull, 1831-1890.
- Wild west shows.
- History.
- West (U.S.)--History--19th century--Fiction.
- West (U.S.).
- West (U.S.)--History--21st century--Fiction.
- Wild west shows--United States--History--Fiction.
- United States.
- West United States.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 155 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pushkin Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- "This astonishing work of historical re-imagining tells the little-known story of the Native Americans swallowed up by Buffalo Bill's great entertainment machine"--Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The Museum of Mankind 9
- What Is the Essence of Spectacle? 15
- An Actor 23
- Buffalo Bill in Alsace-Lorraine 35
- The Massacre of Wounded Knee 49
- Buying a Child 61
- The "Battle" of Wounded Knee 75
- The Town of Cody 97
- Reality Isn't What It Used to Be 113
- The Princes of Entertainment Die in Sorrow 123
- Histories 135
- Snow 143.
- Notes:
- First published in French as Tristesse de la terre in 2014.
- Tells the story of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in a narrative story form.
- ISBN:
- 9781782272212
- 1782272216
- OCLC:
- 958125221
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