| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2 | The History Cooperative

Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show. By Louis S. Warren. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. xvi + 652 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $30.00.)
Louis S. Warren is indebted to the voluminous scholarship on Buffalo Bill Cody, especially that of Don Russell who, in 1960, gave readers "a comprehensive reevaluation of his life" (p. xii). Despite Russell's achievement, Warren maintains, questions still remain, especially since the debate concerning Cody's mingling of truth and fiction was occurring even during his lifetime. Warren establishes additional truths, but he seeks to understand why Cody mixed fact and fiction. That understanding, he holds, is crucial for comprehending the workings of Cody's mind and the way he "adapted and reconciled life to story, and vice versa," which is "the central question of this book" (p. xii).	1
The answers Warren discovers are fascinating. They illuminate Buffalo Bill's personality and character and shed light on the changing questions and anxieties of Americans and Europeans of varying races, ethnicities, classes, and nationalities in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. They also underscore the continuing importance of domestic ideology in a world where gender roles were being challenged.	. . .

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