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Article: Wild West Shows
- Article from:
- Montana; The Magazine of Western History
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright Montana Historical Society Summer 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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WILD WEST SHOWS Paul Reddin University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1999. Illustrations, notes, bibliography. xvi + 312 pp. $49.95 cloth, $21.95 paper.
The business of Wild West shows was an extremely competitive one, with numerous enterprises vying for public attention and entrance fees. New books about Wild West shows seeking to garner scholarly and public attention also enter a quite crowded and competitive market that includes L. G. Moses's Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933 (1996) and Joy S. Kasson's Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History (2000). Paul Reddin's Wild West Shows is an important addition to the list. The book is comprised ...