Pioneer performances [electronic resource] : staging the frontier / Matthew Rebhorn. Rebhorn, Matthew. Theater United States History 19th century. American drama 19th century History and criticism. Frontier and pioneer life in literature. PN2245 .R49 2012 792.097309034 23 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 19, 2012). This volume offers a synoptic treatment of the history of American frontier performance ranging from Jacksonian America to Buffalo Bill's Wild West show at the Columbian Exposition of 1893. It reconceives how the frontier was, and still is, defined in performance, and what it means for that frontier to be called 'American'. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. 2012. 2012 Text 1 online resource. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199751303.001.0001 eng West (U.S.) In literature. United States