Boy life on the prairie : Garland, Twain, Cody, and ideal boyhood -- Dangerous adolescence and the dime western -- The Wild West : making history and American boyhood -- Children, spectacle, and agency in Wild West performance -- Work and play : building character on the imagined frontier -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"Revisits these narratives of American boyhood and frontier mythology to show how they worked against and through one another-and how this interaction shaped ideas about national character, identity, and progress"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
The William F. Cody series on the history and culture of the American West; volume 7
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