Sorrow Of The Earth: Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull And The Tragedy Of Show Business
by ERIC VUILLARD /
2017 / English / EPUB
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Fascinating, brilliant and angry: the tale of Buffalo Bill's Wild
West Show and the tragic fate of its Native American
participants.
Fascinating, brilliant and angry: the tale of Buffalo Bill's Wild
West Show and the tragic fate of its Native American
participants.
Buffalo Bill was the prince of show business. His spectacular Wild
West shows were performed to packed houses across the world,
holding audiences spellbound with their grand re-enactments of
tales from the American frontier. For Bill gave the crowds
something they'd never seen before: real-life Indians.
Buffalo Bill was the prince of show business. His spectacular Wild
West shows were performed to packed houses across the world,
holding audiences spellbound with their grand re-enactments of
tales from the American frontier. For Bill gave the crowds
something they'd never seen before: real-life Indians.
This astonishing work of historical re-imagining tells the story of
the Native Americans swallowed up by Buffalo Bill's great
entertainment machine. Of chief Sitting Bull, paraded in theatres
to boos and catcalls for fifty dollars a week. Of a baby Lakota
girl, found under her mother's frozen body, adopted and displayed
on the stage. Of the last few survivors of Wounded Knee, hired to
act out the horrific massacre of their tribe as entertainment. And
of Buffalo Bill Cody himself, hamming it to the last, even as it
consumed him.
This astonishing work of historical re-imagining tells the story of
the Native Americans swallowed up by Buffalo Bill's great
entertainment machine. Of chief Sitting Bull, paraded in theatres
to boos and catcalls for fifty dollars a week. Of a baby Lakota
girl, found under her mother's frozen body, adopted and displayed
on the stage. Of the last few survivors of Wounded Knee, hired to
act out the horrific massacre of their tribe as entertainment. And
of Buffalo Bill Cody himself, hamming it to the last, even as it
consumed him.
Told with beauty, compassion and anger,
Told with beauty, compassion and anger,Sorrow of the Earth
Sorrow of the Earth
shows us tragedy turned into a circus act, history into sham, truth
into a spectacle more powerful than reality itself. Could any of us
turn away?
shows us tragedy turned into a circus act, history into sham, truth
into a spectacle more powerful than reality itself. Could any of us
turn away?