Imagining Wild Bill : James Butler Hickok in war, media, and memory / / Paul Ashdown; Edward Caudill
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| Autore: |
Ashdown Paul <1944->
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| Titolo: |
Imagining Wild Bill : James Butler Hickok in war, media, and memory / / Paul Ashdown; Edward Caudill
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| Pubblicazione: | Carbondale, Illinois : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , [2020] |
| ©2020 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 978.02092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mass media |
| Frontier and pioneer life | |
| Soggetto geografico: | West (U.S.) Biography |
| Persona (resp. second.): | CaudillEdward |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Strange Ripples: A Brief Life Story -- Hickok and the Press: A Durable Story -- Dime Novels: The West Conquers the East -- A Country in the Mind: Hickok in Literature -- Box Office Bill: Hickok in the Movies -- Fancied Up Rooster: Hickok in Radio and Television -- Scribes and Tourists: The Hickok Hunters in Deadwood -- Conclusions: The Last Remaining Home -- Epilogue: Hickok in Biography and History; An Essay on Sources. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "By investigating the allure and power of Wild Bill Hickok's myth, Ashdown and Caudill explain how American journalism and popular culture have shaped the way Civil War-era figures are remembered and reveal how Americans have embraced violence as entertainment."-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Imagining Wild Bill |
| ISBN: | 0-8093-3789-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910795356903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Engaging the Civil War.