"Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West

question 1

Multiple Choice

"Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West

• A) established the model that county fairs would follow in programming annual livestock contests.
• B) was actually the brainchild of Helen Hunt Jackson.
• C) presented mock battles of army scouts and Indians as morality dramas of good versus evil.
• D) counteracted the dime-novel image of the West.
• E) was more successful in Europe than the U.S.

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