Pioneer performances [electronic resource] : staging the frontier / Matthew Rebhorn.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resourceISBN:- 9780199932559 (ebook) :
- 792.097309034 23
- PN2245 .R49 2012
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'.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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