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Popular Culture Review

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Notes
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Brasmer, William, 'T h e Wild West Exhibition and The Drama of
Civilization." Western Popular Theatre, ed. Mayer and Richards,
London: Methuen & Co, 1977. p. 145.
2. See Richard Slotkin, The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in
the Age of Industrialization 1800-1890, (New York: Atheneum, 1985).
3. As quoted in Bronwen J. Cohen, "Nativism and Western Myth: The
Influence of Nativist Ideas on the American Self-Image," Journal of
American Studies, 8:1, April, 1974, p. 30.
4. Standing Bear, Luther. My People, the Sioux. (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 1975). See several chapters on the Wild West tours.
5. Neihardt, John G. Black Elk Speaks (New York: William Morrow & Co.,
1932) pp. 190-191.
6. Ryan, Pat, "Wild Apaches in the Effete West: A Theatrical Adventure of
John P. Clum," Theatre Survey, Vol. 6, No. 2, Nov., 1965, p. 153.
7. Standing Bear, Luther, pp. 132-150.
8. Slotkin, p. 145.
9. Ryan, p. 149.
10. Yellow Robe, Chauncey, 'T h e Menace of the Wild West Show,"
Quarterly Journal of the Society of American Indians, July-Sept., 1914, pp.
224-225.
11. Horsman, Reginald, "Scientific Racism and the American Indian in the
Mid-Nineteenth Century," American Quarterly, May, 1975, p. 152.
12. Ibid., p. 164.
13. Rennert, Jack. 100 Posters of Buffalo B ills Wild West. (New York:
Darien House Poster Art Library, 1976) Poster #66.
14. Yost, Nellie Snyder. Buffalo Bill (Chicago: The Swallow Press, 1979) p. 264.
15. Wilson, Charles R., "Racial Reservations: Indians and Blacks in
American Magazines, 1865-1900," Journal of Popular Culture, Summer,
1976, p. 73.
16. Slotkin, pp. 18-19.