Buffalo Bill on stage / Sandra K. Sagala.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sagala, Sandra K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pioneers--West (U.S.)--Biography.

Pioneers.

Entertainers--United States--Biography.

Entertainers.

Actors--United States--Biography.

Actors.

Melodrama, American--History and criticism.

Melodrama, American.

American drama--19th century--History and criticism.

American drama.

Wild west shows--History--19th century.

Wild west shows.

West (U.S.)--Biography.

West (U.S.).

Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.

Buffalo Bill.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 obscure years when Cody honed the skills that would make him the world-renowned entertainer as he is now remembered. In this revision of her earlier book, Buffalo Bill, Actor, Sandra Sagala chronicles the decade and a half of Cody's life as he crisscrossed the country entertaining millions. She analyzes how the lessons he learned during those theatrical years helped shape his Wild West program, as well as Cody, the performer.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-300) and index.

ISBN:

9781283636568

1283636565

9780826344298

0826344291

OCLC:

609249056