Papers of William F Cody

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A major project to bring together and publish all of the contemporary sources on William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody is running out of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming.
Further information is available here: www.codyarchive.org/
In addition to a digital archive which the project is producing, University of Nebraska Press are publishing two series in collaboration with the project: Cody Papers and Cody Studies.
The first volume in the Cody Papers Series is a new edition of Charles Eldridge Griffin's Four Years in Europe with Buffalo Bill. For further information see here: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Four-Years-in-Europe-with-Buffalo-Bill,674716.aspx.
A new edition of Cody's autobiography will be published later this year.

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PRESS RELEASE - University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland [http://www.strath.ac.uk/] & Papers of William F Cody, BBHC, Cody, Wyoming, USA [http://www.bbhc.org]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 4 March 2011

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West’s Tours of Italy

Glasgow, UK:
Alessandra Magrin, PhD student at the University of Strathclyde and researcher of ‘The papers of W.F. Cody’, is seeking to collect written and audiovisual material about Buffalo Bill’s Wild West’s tours in Italy (1890 &1906) in order to complete her doctoral thesis.

Alessandra Magrin is part of ‘The Papers of W.F. Cody’, a project funded by the Buffalo Bill Historical Center (Cody, WY) the aim of which is to create a general archive of the life and times of the American legendary cowboy, Buffalo Bill. With a new editorial board and international research associates ‘The papers of W.F. Cody’, through the character of Buffalo Bill, is seeking to involve a wider audience into the understanding of the connections between the growth of the American West and Europe.

Alessandra Magrin is looking to collect photographs, post cards, lithographs, films or original footage, newspaper articles, diaries, personal correspondence, the witness of descendents of those who attended any of the show or anyone who has a story about the performances of Buffalo Bill in Italy.

“As the amount of archival records available about the Italian Wild West Shows is limited we are pursuing other sources of information, and I believe much of “new” material probably lies half-forgotten in our basements”, said Magrin. “The Wild West tours have been big events in the fin-de-siécle Italy, possibly one of the very first examples of mass-entertainment experience the Italian population got to know. One can therefore assume that many of our grandparents or great-grandparents attended, or at least expressed curiosity or shared some thoughts in their diaries and letters to friends and family about this new phenomenon. It is this personal and oral history that could really offer new insights into my project about the impact of the American Western myth on the Italian people, and the University of Strathclyde- with its Center for the study of Oral History-is a leading international institution in this area of research”.

For more information or to help the collection of new sources for Alessandra Magrin’s research, you can email her at: [e-mail]

For more information about “The Papers of W.F. Cody” contact:
The Papers of W.F. Cody
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
720 Sheridan Avenue
Cody, WY 82414
[phone] or [phone] (fax)
[e-mail]

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The 8th Biennial Symbiosis Conference which takes place at the University of Glasgow (Scotland) 23-26 June 2011 features the following Panel on Buffalo Bill in Europe as session 1B on the Friday morning:

Panel Chair: Dr Mark Ellis, Senior Lecturer in American History at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Alessandra Magrin (PhD Candidate at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow): ‘“It was a Damned Bad Day When Columbus Discovered America”: Italian Reception of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and (Native) American Reactions to the Cradle of Civilization’

Julia Stetler (PhD Candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas): ‘American Exceptionalism Meets Indian Enthusiasm: Germany Welcomes the Wild West’

Dr Frank Christianson (Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City): ‘Exceptionalists Abroad: Mark Twain, Buffalo Bill and Venture Cosmopolotanism’

For further information or to register for the conference contact Dr Chris Gair, Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow, by email to [e-mail].

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The new edition of William F. Cody's autobiography, edited and with an introduction by Frank Christianson of BYU, which will be published this Fall can now be pre-ordered from the University of Nebraska Press by following this link:

www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Life-of-Hon-William-F-Cody-Known-as-Buffalo-Bil,674921.aspx

[Diane Merkel]

I hope you'll let us know how the conference went. Enjoy!