| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.4

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Canada and the United States

Paul Reddin. Wild West Shows. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1999. Pp. xvi, 312. Cloth $49.95, paper $21.95.

Paul Reddin offers four well-researched case studies beginning with George Catlin in the 1830s and ending with Tom Mix a century later as the Wild West show phenomenon was fading from the American scene. Reddin's choices, including his other two case studies—Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West and the Miller Brothers' 101 Ranch Wild West—are conventional, with the exception of Catlin. Before there were Wild West shows, Catlin enlivened exhibitions of his "Indian Gallery" of portraits and scenes painted on his western travels with lectures, a display of Indian artifacts, and, at various times, ersatz Indians and real Indians who enhanced the carnival atmosphere by performing dances and scalping demonstrations. Since Catlin left the United States in 1839 to exhibit abroad and since he briefly fronted for a Texas land scheme, he serves Reddin as a precursor to the later Wild West showmen, all of whom made European tours and speculated in western land as well. . . .

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