Review
Burke, John M. Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace. Edited by Chris Dixon
European Journal of American Studies
01/01/2013
DOI: 10.4000/ejas.10220
Abstract
[...]the title recalls the importance of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in disseminating the image and the myth of the American frontier: “Cody and his fellows have gathered together the living actual facts of the prairies, and held them up to the wondering, amazing gaze of the world in the court-yards of the palaces of Europe” (14). First published in 1893, Burke’s biography was re-proposed in 2005 in an edition by Tim Connor, who modernized the original archaic spelling, with an introductory essay by Jason Berger (John M. Burke, From Prairie to Palace. The new edition introduced and edited by Chris Dixon, a senior research fellow at the University of Strathclyde, reproduces the full text of the original volume and, more accurately than Connor’s edition, reprints all the illustrations of the princeps; from the line drawing of Buffalo Bill’s most famous actions to unique photographs, such as the picture of Rosa Bonheur painting “Buffalo Bill on Horseback” (ill. 62, 252), the ones of Buffalo Bill’s Indians “Under the Shadow of St. Peter’s, Rome” (ill. 63, 254) and “Camped in the Coliseum” (ill. 64, 256), or the picturesque image of “Buffalo Bill and His Indians” riding a gondola in Venice (ill. 67, 265).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Burke, John M. Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace. Edited by Chris Dixon
- Creators
- Irene Lottini
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- European Journal of American Studies
- DOI
- 10.4000/ejas.10220
- ISSN
- 1991-9336
- eISSN
- 1991-9336
- Publisher
- The European Association for American Studies (EAAS); London
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2013
- Academic Unit
- French and Italian
- Record Identifier
- 9984399037402771
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