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Genre/Form: | Juvenile material |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Havighurst, Walter, 1901-1994. Buffalo Bill's great Wild West Show. New York, Random House [1957] (OCoLC)761269213 |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter Havighurst |
OCLC Number: | 311388 |
Description: | 183 pages illustrations 22 cm |
Contents: | The Old Glory blowout -- Johnny Baker follows the Show -- Shipwreck on the river -- Annie Oakley joins up -- The Chief at Standing Rock -- Sitting Bull adopts a daughter -- "We're on the way" -- Annie Oakley's battle -- The camp on Staten Island -- War cries in Madison Square -- Across the wide water -- Under Paris skies -- Sunset for Sitting Bull -- At the World's Fair [Columbian Exposition of 1893] -- The long show train -- End of the road -- Epilogue: The show goes on. Illustrations: Buffalo Bill Cody astride his white stallion, Isham -- "Defending the wagon train" was one of the most popular spectacles put on by the Wild West -- Buffalo Bill holds the reins; beside him sits Nate Salsbury -- Sitting Bull, the Sioux chief, joined the Wild West in 1885 -- Annie Oakley, the sharpshooter, also joined the show in 1885 -- Johnny Baker, who had been with the Wild West Show since boyhood, throws glass balls into the air while Buffalo Bill shoots them -- Where we were: this poster shows just a few of the many places where Buffalo Bill's Wild West was given a rousing welcome: London, France, Germany, and Rome above; and the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 below -- Annie Oakley, the peerless wing and rifle shot [poster] -- Little Sure Shot -- Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill -- "Foes in '76, friends in '85" -- The buffalo hunt was another favorite act -- Visitors to the Indian village could see chiefs straight from frontier history -- [Cody with Indians in arena]. |
Series Title: | Landmark books, 73 |
Responsibility: | Illustrated by John C. Wonsetler. |
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