Buffalo Bill and His Wild WestA Pictorial BiographyJoseph G. Rosa and Robin Mayxii, 244 pages, 152 photographs, 7 x 9
"This fascinating picture of Cody's life, times, and contributions should have a great deal of popular appeal."--David Dary, author of Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries and The Buffalo Book JOSEPH G. ROSA is the author of Wild Bill Hickok: The Man and His Myth, They Called Him Wild Bill: The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok, Alias Jack McCall, The Gunfighter: Man or Myth?, The West of Wild Bill Hickok, Guns of the American West, Colt Revolvers and the Tower of London, and Age of the Gunfighter: Men and Weapons on the Frontier, 1840–1900. He is coauthor of The West From Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee: The Turbulent Story of the Settling of Frontier America, The Pleasure of Guns, Gun Law: A Study of Violence in the Wild West, Cowboy: The Man and the Myth, and Rowdy Joe Lowe: Gambler with a Gun. ROBIN MAY is the author of The Gold Rushes and Daniel Boone and the American West, and has also been a professional actor. Home | About the Press | Recent Awards | Contact Us | Order
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Who more than Buffalo Bill symbolizes
the American West? William Frederick Cody (1846-1917) personified,
packaged, and perpetuated the myth of the Wild West. This lively
biography documents fully the events of his extraordinary career
as a buffalo hunter, army scout, freighter, and guide on the
Great Plains, and as a showman on two continents. More than
150 fully captioned historic photographs--many never before published--depict
Buffalo Bill from his childhood days to his reign as a superlative
actor and producer whose Wild West remains unique in the annals
of show business. This volume preserves the color and spectacle
of a bygone era--and, best of all, shows that that the real and
heroic figure rivals the invented and legendary Buffalo Bill.