Louis S. Warren (117 page)

LOUIS S. WARREN

BUFFALO BILL'S AMERICA

Louis S. Warren is W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of
The
Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century
America
, which won the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Book, 1998, awarded by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center.

ALSO BY LOUIS S. WARREN

The Hunter's Game
American Environmental History
(ed.)

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, DECEMBER 2006

Copyright © 2005 by Louis S. Warren

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of
Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division
of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2005.

Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Liveright Publishing Corporation for permission
to reprint the lines from “Buffalo Bill's” copyright 1923, 1951, © 1991 by the Trustees
for the E. E. Cummings Trust. From
Complete Poems: 1904–1962
by E. E. Cummings,
edited by George J. Firmage. Copyright © 1976 by George James Firmage.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:

Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West show / Louis S. Warren.—1st ed.
p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Buffalo Bill, 1846–1917. 2. Pioneers—West (U.S.)—Biography.
3. Frontier and pioneer life—West (U.S.) 4. Entertainers—United States—Biography.
5. Buffalo Bill's Wild West. 6. West (U.S.)—Biography. I. Title.

F594.B94W37 2005
978'02'092—dc22
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