Reviews for The Business of Being Buffalo Bill: Selected Letters of William F. Cody, 1879-1917

The average rating for The Business of Being Buffalo Bill: Selected Letters of William F. Cody, 1879-1917 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-03-30 00:00:00 Dirk Dachs A useful collection showing William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") to be an ambitious Western businessman and an indefatigable international showman. It proves that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the American West was not far removed from the East -- or even from Europe. Trains, ships, and telegraph lines connected them tightly, and it was not difficult for Cody to make a long public career out of bridging them. He stayed at New York hotels as comfortably (and about as often) as he lived at his ranch in Wyoming, and his wild west show played in Marseilles and Rome as well as North Platte, Nebraska.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-10-16 00:00:00 Charles D. Spar Students of Southern culture, pre- and postmodern, might prefer to assemble a year's worth of dulce et utile reading from LSU Press' excellent Southern Literary Studies series, edited by Fred Hobson. His own contribution, BUT NOW I SEE: THE WHITE SOUTHERN RACIAL CONVERSION NARRATIVE, draws some brilliant parallels between the writings of Willie Morris and Lillian Smith, to name two of Hobson's subjects, and those of 17th-century New England Puritans like Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards. Last year saw the publication of two more books in the series: THE LEGACY OF ROBERT PENN WARREN, a collection of variously authored essays edited by David Madden, and SEWANEE WRITERS ON WRITING, edited by Wyatt Prunty. (originally published in the NASHVILLE SCENE)