Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
Title:
Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
Format:
Books
Author:
Publication Date(s):
2017
ISBN:
9781476773520
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Description:
xvii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Contents:
In which public enemy number one comes home -- In which the wild west is born, and dies and is resurrected from the bottom of the Mississippi River -- In which the Seventh Cavalry is defeated at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and Buffalo Bill stars as himself in the "Red right hand, or the First scalp for Custer" -- In which Sitting Bull is hired and heads east for the Wild West -- In which Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill join up in the City of Buffalo, and Tatanka Iyotake reunites with Annie Oakley -- In which an Indian and a Wasichu certify their alliance across the medicine line -- In which there comes a ghost dance, or, a horse from Buffalo Bill responds to the assassination of Sitting Bull, and other instances of the last days of the wild west -- Epilogue.
Summary:
The little known story of the unlikely friendship of two famous figures of the American West—Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull—told through their time in Cody’s Wild West show in the 1880s. It was in Brooklyn, New York, in 1883 that William F. Cody—known across the land as Buffalo Bill—conceived of his Wild West show, an “equestrian extravaganza” featuring cowboys and Indians. The idea took off. For four months in 1885 the Lakota chief Sitting Bull appeared in the show. Blood Brothers tells the story of these two iconic figures through their brief but important collaboration.
Corporate Subject:
Genre:
