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Book Review



William F. Cody's Wyoming Empire: The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows. By Robert E. Bonner. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xxii, 318 pp. $32.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3829-9.)

Everyone who studies U.S. history knows who Buffalo Bill is: the hunter, scout, guide, and even a fighter with U.S. frontier soldiers. But he is best known as the organizer and leader of the famous Wild West shows that for decades toured the United States and Europe. In effect, he became the personification of the frontier man in the late nineteenth century. . . .

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