American Icons: Buffalo Bill's Wild West
This was the spectacle that colonized our dreams. He was the most famous American in the world " a showman and spin artist who parlayed a buffalo-hunting gig into an entertainment empire. William F. Cody's stage show presented a new creation myth for America, bringing cowboys, Indians, settlers, and sharpshooters to audiences who had only read about the West in dime novels. He offered Indians a life off the reservati…