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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Moses, L. G. (Lester George), 1948- Wild West shows and the images of American Indians, 1883-1933. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1996 (OCoLC)604208602 Online version: Moses, L. G. (Lester George), 1948- Wild West shows and the images of American Indians, 1883-1933. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1996 (OCoLC)607769404 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
L G Moses |
| ISBN: | 0826316859 9780826316851 |
| OCLC Number: | 32778887 |
| Description: | xvii, 364 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Before the Wild West show -- The first years of Cody's Wild West -- The Wild West of London -- Reformers and the image of the show Indian -- Indians abroad, 1889-1890 -- Ghost dancers of London, 1891-1892 -- Indians on the midway : fairs and expositions, 1893-1903 -- Show-Indian students in St. Louis, 1904 -- The Wild West show in its prime, 1900-1917 -- Federal policies and alternate images, 1900-1917 -- Filming the Wild West, 1896-1913 -- Decline of the Wild West shows, 1917-1933. |
| Responsibility: | L.G. Moses. |
Abstract:
An Ihanktonwan-Sicangu Sioux, explaining why he enjoyed his years spent performing in Wild West shows, remarked: "It gave me a chance to get back on a horse and act it out again." Between the 1880s and the 1930s Show Indians depicted their warfare with whites and portrayed scenes from their culture in productions that traveled throughout the United States and Europe and drew huge audiences - well over a million people in 1885 alone. Were they simply tipi-and-war bonnet Indians exploited by entrepreneurs like Buffalo Bill? That view, commonly held by reformers of the 1890s, has been uncritically accepted ever since. This book is the first to examine the lives and experiences of Show Indians from their own point of view. Their dances, re-enactments of battles, and village encampments, the author demonstrates, helped preserve the Indians' cultural heritage through decades of forced assimilation.
This book also looks at Wild West shows as ventures in the entertainment business. By considering financing, scripting, recruitment, logistics, and public and creditor perceptions, L. G. Moses reveals the complexity of the enterprise and the numerous - and often contradictory - meanings the shows had for Indians, entrepreneurs, audiences, and government officials.
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