Sorrow of the Earth [electronic resource] : Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the Tragedy of Show Business
Éric Vuillard2016
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Fascinating, brilliant and angry: the tale of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and
the tragic fate of its Native American participants
Buffalo Bill was the prince of show business. His spectacular Wild West shows
were performed to packed houses across the world, holding audiences spellbound
with their grand re-enactments of tales from the American frontier. For Bill
gave the crowds something they'd never seen before: real-life Indians.
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.
Of chief Sitting Bull, paraded in theatres to boos and catcalls for fifty
dollars a week. Of a baby Lakota girl, found under her mother's frozen body,
adopted and displayed on the stage. Of the last few survivors of Wounded Knee,
hired to act out the horrific massacre of their tribe as entertainment. And of
Buffalo Bill Cody himself, hamming it to the last, even as
it consumed him.
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Main title:
Author:
Éric Vuillard, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Pushkin Press, 2016
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (300 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781782272823
Language:
English
BRN:
434668
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |