Buffalo Bill's Wild West

A century ago, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show enthralled millions of spectators in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Billboards everywhere made William Cody, the show's originator and star, a world-renowned figure. Joy S. Kasson's important book shows how Cody's image was shaped. Publicity stressed his show's "authenticity", yet audiences thrilled to its melodrama; fact and fiction converged in a performance that instantly became part of American tradition.