01516nam a2200313 a 4500 EDZ0000077387 StDuBDS 20150804193936.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120417s2012 enk fo| 001 0 eng|d 9780199932559 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS PN2245 .R49 2012 792.097309034 23 Rebhorn, Matthew. Pioneer performances [electronic resource] : staging the frontier / Matthew Rebhorn. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. 1 online resource. 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'. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 19, 2012). Includes bibliographical references and index. Theater United States History 19th century. American drama 19th century History and criticism. Frontier and pioneer life in literature. West (U.S.) In literature. Print version 9780199751303 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199751303.001.0001 37700 37700