Title: Pioneer performances
Description: 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'.
Subjects: History, In literature, Theater, History and criticism, American drama, Frontier and pioneer life in literature, Theater, united states, history, American drama, history and criticism, West (u.s.), in literature
Places: United States, West (U.S.)
Time periods: 19th century