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BUFFALO
$25
8x10 double matted papercast with foam core spacer.
shrink-wrapped until you're ready to frame.
The Buffalo herds were the most important food and clothing source for
the Native People who roamed the vast expanses of the western prairies.
Killing the buffalo to feed the railroad workers and for their hides to
supply the markets in the east led to the demise of those nomadic tribes of
the west.
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Buffalo Bill's America
Author: Louis S. Warren
William Cody straddled two worlds and two eras. Born
in 1846 in Iowa, he moved west as the nation expanded to the Pacific; he was
a genuine product of the frontier who served as a Pony Express rider, army
scout, and big-game hunter. Yet he achieved his greatest fame as the
frontier was closing, and his Wild West shows, with their utilization of
mass-marketing techniques and electronic gimmickry, clearly belong to the
twentieth century. But, as Warren reveals in this engrossing and thoroughly
enjoyable biography, Cody himself, and the public perception of his life,
were always riddled with contradictions. In later life, Cody undeniably
embellished his accomplishments, but Warren shows that, as a frontiersman,
Cody was the genuine article. He was often self-centered, even narcissistic,
but he seemed to genuinely like people and was generous to a fault. Warren
has provided an outstanding examination of the life and times of an
enigmatic "hero" who was perhaps our first media-driven superstar. Jay
Freeman
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