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122. Ron T y ler," Artist on the Oregon T r ail:Alfred Jacob Miller," American J-Vest
1 8 (November-December 1981), 52, 55.
123 . Cooper, Prairie, 367; Snelling, Tales if the Northwest, IOI ; and Simms,
Yemassee, 299-300.
124. No author, "Glimpses of Indian Life at the Omaha Exposition," Review
of Reviews 18 (October 1898): 436-43 .
125 . Louis S.Warren, "Cody's Last Stand: Masculine Anxiety, the Custer Myth,
and the Frontier of Domesticity in Buffalo Bill's Wild W e st," J-Vestern
Historical Quarterly 24 (spring 2003): 49-69.
126. Regarding William E "Buffalo Bill" Cody, the most recent biographies
ff
are Joseph G. Rosa and Robin May, Bu a lo Bill and His W ild J-Vest: A
Pictorial Biography (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1978); Eric V
Sorg, Buffalo Bill: Myth and Reality (Santa Fe, N.Mex.:Ancient City Press,
1998); and RobertA. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend
(New Y o rk: John Wiley, 2000) . For Cody's problem with the "bottom
line," see Sarah J. Blackstone, Buckskins, Bullets, and Business: A History if
Buffalo Bill's W ild J-Vest (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1986). Also useful
is Jonathan D. Martin, '''The Grandest and Most Cosmopolitan Object
T e acher': Buffalo Bill's Wild West and the Politics of American Identity,
1883-1899," Radical History Review (fall 1996) : 92-123 ; Thomas Antony
Freeland, "The National Entertainment: Buffalo Bill's Wild W e st and the
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Pageant of American Empire" (Ph.D. diss , Stanford University , 1999); and
Joy S. Kasson, Buffalo Bill's W i ld J-Vest: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History
(New Y o rk: Hill and W a ng, 2000).
127. For analysis ofWild W e st show content, see Paul Reddin, W ild J-Vest Shows
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999); and Kristine Fredricksson,
American Rodeo: From Buffalo Bill to Big Business (College Station: T e xas A
& M University Press, 1985) . For coverage of Native Americans and Wild
W e st shows, see Robert E. Bieder, "Marketing the American Indian in
Europe: Context, Commodification, and Reception," in Cultural
Transmissions and Receptions:American Mass Culture in Europe, ed. R. Kroes,
R. W Rydell, and D. E J. Bosscher (Amsterdam: VU University Press,
1993), 15-23 ; Cindy Fent and Raymond Wilson, "Indians Off T r ack:
Cody's Wild W e st and the Melrose Park Train Wreck of 1904," American
Indian Culture and Research Journal 18, 3 (1994): 235-69; and L. G. Moses,
"Indians on the Midway: Wild W e st Shows and the Indian Bureau at
W o rld's Fairs, 1893-1904," South Dakota History 21 (fall 1991): 205-29; and
Moses, W i ld J-Vest Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933
(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996) .An Indian's view­
point is Chauncey Y e llow Robe, "The Menace of the Wild W e st Show,"
Quarterly Journal of the Society of American Indians 2 (July-September 1914) :
224-28. That white women saw reform of show Indians as being in their

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