Professional Athletes
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992); Joyce Gibson Roach,
The Cowgirls
, 2d ed. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1990); Elizabeth Van Steenwyck,
Women in Sports: Rodeo
(New York: Harvey House, 1978); and Sarah Wood-Clark,
Beautiful Daring Western Girls: Women of the Wild West Shows
, 2d ed. (Cody, Wyo.: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1991). Also useful is Jack Rennert,
One Hundred Posters of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
(New York: Darien House, 1976).
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Books and articles on Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West abound: Joseph J. Arpad,
Buffalo Bill's Wild West
(Palmer Lake, Colo.: Fetter Press, 1971); M. B. Bailey, ed.,
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Route Book
(Buffalo, N.Y.: Courier Co., 1896); Sarah J. Blackstone,
Buckskins, Bullets, and Business: A History of Buffalo Bill's Wild West
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986), which is especially useful on the idea of performance texts; William E. Deahl, Jr., "A History of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, 18831913," (Ph.D. diss., Southern Illinois University, 1974) and "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, 1885,"
Annals of Wyoming
47 (Fall 1975): 13951; Louis Pfaller, ''Enemies in '76, Friends in '85: Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill,"
Prologue: Journal of the National Archives
1 (1969): 1631; Adolph Regli,
The Real Book about Buffalo Bill
(Garden City, N.Y.: Franklin Watts, 1952); Joseph G. Rosa and Robin May,
Buffalo Bill and His Wild West
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989); Don Russell,
The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960) and "Cody, Kings, and Coronets: A Sprightly Account of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Home and Abroad,''
American West
7 (1970): 419, 62; Henry Blackman Sell and Victor Weybright,
Buffalo Bill and the Wild West
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1955); Richard J. Walsh,
The Making of Buffalo Bill: A Study in Heroics
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1928); and Nellie Snyder Yost,
Buffalo Bill: His Family, Friends, Fame, Failures, and Fortunes
(Chicago: Swallow Press, 1979). For interpretations of Cody's image, see Wayne M. Sarf,
God Bless You, Buffalo Bill: A Layman's Guide to History and the Western Film
(Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1983).
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Personal insights into the back lot and Cody are found in three works: Tex Cooper, "I Knew Buffalo Bill,"
Frontier Times
33 (Spring 1969): 1921; Milt Hinkle, "Memoirs of My Rodeo Days,"
Real West
11 (September 1968): 3537, 65; and M. I. McCreight, "Buffalo As I Knew Him,"
True West
4 (July/August 1957): 25, 4142. Firsthand accounts that give a view of the Wild West's European tour between 1903 and 1906 are Charles Eldrige Griffin,
Four Years in Europe with Buffalo Bill
(Albia, Iowa: Stage Publishing Co., 1908), and Luther Standing Bear,
My People the Sioux
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1975), chapters 2415.
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