TY - BOOK AU - Rebhorn,Matthew TI - Pioneer performances: staging the frontier SN - 9780199932559 (ebook) : AV - PN2245 .R49 2012 U1 - 792.097309034 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Theater KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - American drama KW - History and criticism KW - Frontier and pioneer life in literature KW - West (U.S.) KW - In literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This volume offers a synoptic treatment of the history of American frontier performance ranging from Jacksonian America to Buffalo Bill's Wild West show at the Columbian Exposition of 1893. It reconceives how the frontier was, and still is, defined in performance, and what it means for that frontier to be called 'American' UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199751303.001.0001 ER -