Buffalo Bill / PBS ; a HiddenHill Productions film for American Experience ; WGBH Boston ; written, produced and directed by Rob Rapley.

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This film presents a portrait of the man who made the American West into the American story. For most Americans in the mid-1800s, the Wild West existed only in dime novels, but a young man from Kansas who had roamed the prairies in the war with the Plains Indians came to embody the picaresque front...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Hidden Hill Productions
WGBH Educational Foundation
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
PBS Home Video
Other Authors: Rapley, Rob (Screenwriter, Director, Producer)
Cramer, Richard Ben (Narrator)
Chin, Michael
Goodman, Joel (Joel Scott)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Closed captioned.
Published: Boston, Mass. : Alexandria, VA : WGBH Educational Foundation ; Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2008], ©2008.
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Rovi K-12 education materials.
Subjects:
Buffalo Bill, > 1846-1917.
Buffalo Bill, > 1846-1917 > Relations with Indigenous peoples of North America.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show > History.
Pioneers > West (U.S.)
Entertainers > West (U.S.)
Entertainers > United States > Biography.
Scouts (Reconnaissance) > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Indigenous peoples of North America > Great Plains > History > 19th century.
Wild west shows > History > 19th century.
West (U.S.) > History > 1860-1890.
United States > History > 19th century.
Nonfiction television programs.
Biographical television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
History.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
1800 - 1899
Entertainers.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Indians of North America.
Pioneers.
Relations with Indians of North America.
Scouts (Reconnaissance)
Wild west shows.
Great Plains.
United States.
West United States.
Genre:
Biography.
Nonfiction television programs.
Biographical television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
History.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD

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