| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Book Review

Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History. By Joy S. Kasson. (New York: Hill & Wang, 2000. xii, 319 pp. $27.00, ISBN 0-8090-3243-0.)

Among the half-dozen books about Buffalo Bill Cody and the wild West written over the last ten years, Joy S. Kasson's ranks among the very best. Along with Paul Reddin's Wild West Shows (1999), her exquisitely crafted analysis of America's national entertainment provides stunning insights into the nature of performance and public memory. Kasson approaches her subject from the perspective of American studies, which in less capable hands can be rendered occasionally inscrutable. Readers are blessed with a story rich in nuance but delightfully lucid. . . .

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