Wild West Shows

Blackstone, Sarah J. Buckskins, Bullets, and Business: A History of Buffalo Bill's Wild West. Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, No. 14. Westport, Conn.. Greenwood Press, 1986.

Bold, Christine. Selling The Wild West Popular Western Fiction, 1860-1960. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Collings, Ellsworth and Alma Miller England. The 101 Ranch. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1938.

Clark, Sarah Wood. Beautiful, Daring Western Girls: Women of the Wild West Shows. Cody, Wyo.: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1985, 1991 [exhibit guide].

Erskine, Gladys Shaw. Broncho Charlie: A Saga of the Saddle. NY: Thomas Crowell Co., 1934.

Farnum, Allen L. Pawnee Bill's Historic Wild West: A Photodocumentary of the 1900-05 Show Tours. West Chester, Penna.: Schiffer Publishing Co., 1992.

Hall, Roger A. Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Logan, Herschel C. Buckskin and Satin: The Life of Texas Jack....and his Wife Mlle. Morlacchi. Harrisburg, Penna.: Stackpole Co., 1954.

Makharadze, Irakli. Wild West Georgians. Tbilisi: New Media Tbilisi, 2002.

Noble, James. Around the Coast with Buffalo Bill: The Wild West in Yorkshire & Lincolnshire. East Yorkshire: Hutton Press, 1999.

Reddin, Paul. Wild West Shows. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Rennert, Jack. 100 Posters of Buffalo Bill's Wild West. NY: Darien House, 1976.

Russell, Don.  The Wild West, or A History of the Wild West Shows, ...  Fort Worth, Texas:  Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1970.

Rydell, Robert W. and Rob Kroes. Buffalo Bill in Bologna: the Americanization of the World, 1869-1922. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Sell, Henry Blackman. Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. NY: Oxford University Press, 1955; and London: Hamish Hamilton, 1956.

Shirley, Glenn. Pawnee Bill: A Biography of Major Gordon W. Lillie. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1958. Reprinted by Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, 1958.

Thorp, Raymond W. Spirit Gun of the West: The Story of Doc W.F. Carver… Western Frontiersmen Series VII, Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1957; also published as "Wild West" Doc Carver: Spirit Gun of the West. London: W. Foulsham & Co., Ltd., 1957. Title varies considerably with publisher and edition.

Wallis, Michael. The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

White, Richard and Patricia Nelson Limerick; essays by. Edited by James R. Grossman. The Frontier in American Culture: An Exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994-January 7, 1995. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Compares the influences of Frederick Jackson Turner and William F. Cody.

Wilson, R.L., et al. Buffalo Bill's Wild West: An American Legend. NY: Random House, 1998.

Compiled by the McCracken Research Library. Updated May 2008.