Cody's Last Stand
Masculine Anxiety, the Custer Myth, and the Frontier of Domesticity in Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3407925 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louis S Warren (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49 |
| Publication date | 2003-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Western Historical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-3810 • E-ISSN: 1939-8603 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25047208 |
| OpenAlex | W2334189237 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Close analysis of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show suggests that frontier mythology of the late nineteenth century was more domestically oriented than most historians have assumed. In fact, the show relied on scenes of family defense more than it did on depictions of “Custer's Last Fight.” How William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody utilized domestic imagery, and why he appears to have dropped it near the end of his career, suggests changes in his personal biographical needs and in frontier myth at the beginning of the twentieth century
American west · Archaeology · Art · Ethnology · Frontier · Literature · Mythology · Sociology · American History and Culture · American Sports and Literature · History · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2019 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |