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Autore: | Ashdown Paul <1944-> |
Titolo: | Imagining Wild Bill : James Butler Hickok in war, media, and memory / / Paul Ashdown; Edward Caudill |
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 |
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