American Endurance
Subtitle: The Great Cowboy Race and the Vanishing Wild West
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781588345752
Subjects: Buffalo bill, 1846-1917; Horsemanship; Horse racing; Cowboys; West (u.s.), history
Description: "American Endurance : The Great Cowboy Race and the Vanishing Wild West depicts nine cowboys as they race thousands of miles across the American prairie to the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. At the finish line was Buffalo Bill Cody, who had set up his Wild West Show next to the fair"--