Joy S. Kasson (NHC Fellow, 1996–97)

Project Title

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show: History, Performance, and Cultural Identity

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Fellowship Work Summary, 1996–97

Joy S. Kasson completed the research and wrote the first three chapters of Buffalo Bill's Wild West: The Performance of History to be published by Hill and Wang.

Genre > Monographs

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History

History / Celebrity / American History / Performing Arts / Popular Culture / Collective Memory / Westerns / American Westward Expansion / American Civil War / Indigenous Americans / Buffalo Bill /

Genre > Webinars

Buffalo Bill, American Idol

Theater / History / American History / Celebrity / American Frontier / Vaudeville / Performance /

Genre > Webinars

Opportunity Costs: The Perils and Profits of Assimilation

History / Immigration / Cultural Assimilation / Cultural History / American History /

Genre > Primary Source Guides

The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870–1912

History / American History / Gilded Age / United States of America /