Transnational Frontiers, Volume 29: The American West in France

by Emily C. Burns

When Buffalo Bill's Wild West show traveled to Paris in 1889, the New York Times reported that the exhibition would be "managed to suit French ideas." But where had those "French ideas" of the American West come from? And how had they, in turn, shaped the notions of "cowboys and Indians" that captivated the French imagination during the Gilded Age? In Transnational Frontiers, Emily C. Burns maps the complex fin-de-si cle cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806160039
• ISBN13: 9780806160030
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 3.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 11.2"