Buffalo Bill Centennial Symposium
August 2–4, 2017
In both popular and scholarly consciousness, the life and times of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody have come to represent a key phase of the American past. From his early life through his various professional phases including the decades of the Wild West tours, the Buffalo Bill phenomenon reflects fundamental currents in American culture during the period from 1850 to 1920. Buffalo Bill’s narrative focuses scholarship on the American West on the relationship between material history as well as its popular mythologies.
The 2017 centenary of William F. Cody’s death provides the occasion for scholars, both established and new, to reexamine his legacy and consider new directions in scholarship. Session topics consider his life and enterprises in the context of American Western Studies, including his place in the regional history of settlement, in the popularization of frontier nationalism in America and abroad, and in the development of Western historiography.
For more information, please e-mail Jeremy Johnston, Curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum and Managing Editor of the Papers of William F. Cody.
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