BUFFALO BILL'S AMERICA(ISBN=9780375726583)

　　William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the most famous American of his age. He claimed to have worked for the Pony Express when only a boy and to have scouted for General George Custer. But what was his real story? And how did a frontiersman become a worldwide celebrity?
　　In this prize-winning biography, acclaimed author Louis S. Warren explains not only how Cody exaggerated his real experience as an army scout and buffalo hunter, but also how that experience inspired him to create the gigantic, traveling spectacle known as Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. A dazzling mix of Indians, cowboys, and vaqueros, they performed on two continents for three decades, offering a surprisingly modern view of the United States and a remarkably democratic version of its history. This definitive biography reveals the genius of America’s greatest showman, and the startling history of the American West that drove him and his performers to the world stage.

　　Louis S. Warren took his B.A. at Columbia University and his M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. at Yale University. He has taught at Yale, University of San Diego, and, since 1999, at the University of California, Davis, where he is currently Associate Professor of History. He is the author of The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (1997), which won the 1997 Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Book, and several articles. His article on "Cody's Last Stand" in the Western Historical Quarterly won the Oscar O. Winther Award for best article (2003).

Introduction
PART ONE
　One: Pony Express
　Two: The Attack on the Settler’s Cabin
　Three: The Village . . . The Cyclone
　Four: With the Prince of Pistoleers
　Five: Guide and Scout
　Six: Buffalo Hunt
PART TWO
　Seven: Theater Star
　Eight: Indians, Horses
　Nine: Domesticating the Wild West
　Ten: The Drama of Civilization: Visual Play and Moral Ambiguity
　Eleven: Wild West London
　Interlude: Broncho Charlie Miller
　Twelve: Wild West Europe
　Thirteen: Ghost Dance
　Interlude: Standing Bear
　Fourteen: Cowboys, Indians, and the Artful Deceptions of Race
　Fifteen: Buffalo Bill’s America
　Interlude: The Johnson Brothers
PART THREE
　Sixteen: Empire of the Home
　Seventeen: Showdown in Cheyenne
　Interlude: Adele Von Ohl Parker
　Eighteen: End of the Trail
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
From the Hardcover edition.