{"product_id":"9781782272823","title":"Sorrow of the Earth: Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the Tragedy of Show Business","description":"Fascinating, brilliant and angry: the tale of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and the tragic fate of its Native American participants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuffalo Bill was the prince of show business. His spectacular Wild West shows were performed to packed houses across the world, holding audiences spellbound with their grand re-enactments of tales from the American frontier. For Bill gave the crowds something they'd never seen before: real-life Indians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis astonishing work of historical re-imagining tells the story of the Native Americans swallowed up by Buffalo Bill's great entertainment machine. Of chief Sitting Bull, paraded in theatres to boos and catcalls for fifty dollars a week. Of a baby Lakota girl, found under her mother's frozen body, adopted and displayed on the stage. Of the last few survivors of Wounded Knee, hired to act out the horrific massacre of their tribe as entertainment. And of Buffalo Bill Cody himself, hamming it to the last, even as it consumed him. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold with beauty, compassion and anger, \u003ci\u003eSorrow of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e shows us tragedy turned into a circus act, history into sham, truth into a spectacle more powerful than reality itself. Could any of us turn away?","brand":"Steerforth Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152337748208,"sku":"9781782272823","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781782272823_p0.jpg?v=1763719034","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781782272823","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}