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Explores narratives of American boyhood and frontier mythology to show how they worked against and through one another-and how this interaction shaped ideas about national character, identity, and progress.

However contested, western history is one of America's national origin stories that we turn to in times of upheaval. Dude ranches provide a tangible link from the real to the imagined past, and their popularity demonstrates how significant this link remains. This book tells their story-in all its familiar, eccentric, and often surprising detail.

Today, most remember "California Girl" Lillian Frances Smith (1871-1930) as Annie Oakley's chief competitor in the small world of the Wild West shows' female shooters. But the two women were quite different. This lively first biography chronicles the Wild West showbiz life that Smith led and explores the talents that made her a star.

The unique posters that branded Buffalo Bill's Wild West as the true Wild West experience attracted patrons from around to the traveling show. Michelle Delaney showcases these posters in colour, many of which have never before been reproduced, pairing them with new research into previously inaccessible manuscript and photograph collections.

The average American today is bombarded with as many as 5,000 advertisements a day. In this lively narrative, business history writer Joe Dobrow traces the origins of modern American marketing to the late nineteenth century when three charismatic individuals launched an industry that defines our national culture.

An informative and thought-provoking examination of the Wild West's foreign tours, The Popular Frontier offers new insight into late-nineteenth-century gender politics and ethnicity, the development of American nationalism, and the simultaneous rise of a global mass culture.

For more than thirty years, William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody entertained audiences with his Wild West show. Scores of books have been written about his career as a showman, but his involvement in the film industry is less well known. Sandra Sagala chronicles the fascinating story of Cody's venture into filmmaking during the early cinema period.