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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: McMurtry, Larry. Colonel and Little Missie. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005 (OCoLC)607626527 |
Named Person: | Buffalo Bill; Annie Oakley; Annie Oakley; Buffalo Bill; Annie Oakley; Buffalo Bill; Annie Oakley |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Larry McMurtry |
ISBN: | 0743271718 9780743271714 0743271726 9780743271721 |
OCLC Number: | 57573944 |
Description: | 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The tropes -- The troupes -- Annie -- Grandmother England -- Western heroes, heroines, and villains. |
Responsibility: | Larry McMurtry. |
More information: |
Abstract:
In this dual biography, McMurtry explores the lives, the legends, and above all the truth about two larger-than-life American figures. With his Wild West show, Buffalo Bill Cody helped invent the image of the West that still exists today--cowboys and Indians, rodeo, rough rides, sheriffs and outlaws, trick shooting, Stetsons, and buck-skin. His most celebrated protégée, the short, slight Annie Oakley--born Phoebe Ann Moses in Ohio--spent sixteen years with Buffalo Bill's Wild West, where she entertained Queen Victoria and Kaiser Wilhelm II, among others. Beloved by all who knew her, Oakley became a legend in her own right, and after her death achieved a new lease of fame in the musical Annie, Get Your Gun. They were cultural icons, setting the path for all that followed.--From publisher description.
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