Buffalo Bill’s Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History
By Joy S. Kasson (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) Canada, and Europe. Crowds cheered as cowboys and Indians–and Annie Oakley!–galloped past on spirited horses, sharpshooters exploded glass balls tossed high in the air, and cavalry troops arrived just in time to save a stagecoach from Indian attack. Vivid posters on billboards everywhere made William Cody, the show's … Continued
