Buffalo Bill On Stage
Author: Sandra K. Sagala
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2008

From the Publisher:
Between 1872 and 1886, before he achieved acclaim for his Wild West show, "Buffalo Bill" led a troupe of traveling actors known as a Combination across the country performing in frontier melodramas. Biographies of William Frederick Cody rarely address these fourteen rather obscure years when Cody honed the skills that would make him the world-reknowned entertainer as he is now remembered.

In this revision to her earlier book, Buffalo Bill, Actor Sandra Sagala chronicles the decade and a half of Cody's life as he crisscrossed the country entertaining millions. She analyzes how the lessons he learned during those theatrical years helped shaped his Wild West program, as well as Cody, the performer.

What Others Are Saying:
"Fans of Buffalo Bill and anyone interested in 19th-century theatre will appreciate 
 Buffalo Bill on Stage."
                   -True West Magazine

"This is a highly entertaining book that satisfies on several levels"        
                               -Tucson Citizen

 

About the Author:
{>}Sandra K. Sagala is the author of the articles, "Buffalo Bill Cody vs. Doc Carver: The Battle Over the Wild West" and "Mark Twin and Buffalo Bill Cody: Mirrored Through a Glass Darkly" and coauthor with JoAnne M. Bagwell of {>} Alias Smith and Jones: The Story of Two Pretty Good Bad Men. She lives in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Hardcover. 319 pp.