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Buffalo Bill

eng

videorecording

Classification : G

Buffalo Bill

870656568

53

American experience

This film presents a portrait of the man who made the American West into the American story. For most Americans in the mid 1800s, the Wild West existed only in dime novels, but a young man from Kansas who had roamed the prairies in the war with the Plains Indians came to embody the picaresque frontier hero. As the frontier was rapidly disappearing, he realized he could market his life as entertainment, and millions around the world would pay for a taste of his Wild West. Tall, handsome, confident, and charismatic, he blurred the line between truth and entertainment, history and myth. Thus was a mere plainsman turned into an international celebrity and frontier hero, his meteoric rise to fame made possible by his genius and hucksterism. His name was William Cody, but the world remembers him as Buffalo Bill

Introduction -- Scout and buffalo hunter -- Inventing Buffalo Bill -- World at his feet -- Native Americans in the Wild West Show -- Frontier story is the American story -- Credits

adult

live action

American experience, Buffalo Bill