Title: Sorrow of the earth : Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the tragedy of show business /
Authors: Vuillard, Éric; Jefferson, Ann
Year: 2016
Subjects: Buffalo Bill, Fiction.; Sitting Bull, Fiction.; Wild west shows United States History Fiction.; West (U.S.) History Fiction.; West (U.S.) History Fiction.
Abstract: "This astonishing work of historical re-imagining tells the little-known story of the Native Americans swallowed up by Buffalo Bill's great entertainment machine"--Book jacket.
Contents: The Museum of Mankind -- What is the seence of spectacle? -- An actor -- Buffalo Bill in Alsace-Lorraine -- The massacre at Wounded Knee -- Buying a child -- The "Battle" of Wounded Knee -- The town of Cody -- Reality isn't what it used to be -- The princes of entertainment die in sorrow -- Histories -- Snow