Many Loves of Buffalo Bill: The True Of Story Of Life On The Wild West Show [Paperback]

“What we want to do is give our women even more liberty than they have. Let them do any kind of work that they see fit, and if they do it as well as men, give them the same pay.”—William F. Cody, 1899

With rough-riding cowboys, sure shots, and fantastic reenactments of battles and train robberies, Buffalo Bill Cody brought the myth of the Old West to life for audiences all over the world—and some of the most popular cowboys in his Wild West Show were young ladies. Cody surrounded himself with strong, intelligent, talented, beautiful women—and this revealing portrait tells the stories of his life and of his relationships with many of the trick riders, sharpshooters, and other women associated with the show for which he was famous.Chris Enssis an award-winning screen writer who has written for television, short subject films, live performances, and for the movies, and is the co-author (with JoAnn Chartier) ofLove Untamed: True Romances Stories of the Old West, Gilded Girls: Women Entertainers of the Old West,andShe Wore A Yellow Ribbon: Women Patriots and Soldiers of the Old WestandThe Cowboy and the Senorita;Happy Trails; The Young Duke; None Wounded, None Missing All Dead;andThunder Over the Prairie—soon to be a motion picture—with Howard Kazanjian. Her recent books includeFrontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old WestandThe Doctor Wore Petticoats.

Enss has done everything from stand-up comedy to working as a stunt person at the Old Tucson Movie Studio. She learned the basics of writing for film and television at the University of Arizona.Enss gives us the stories behind many of the beauties who captivated Buffalo Bill. She gives us a clearer insight into a simple yet complicated man—the showman Buffalo Bill and the man Bill Cody. Yet for all of his fame, money, and problems, he was a complex hero, and Enss gives us some clues al3Ï