![]() ![]() During the subsequent two decades it continued to travel across America, Britain and Europe with performances attracting significant crowds and interest, making Buffalo Bill an international celebrity in the process. The show was a circus-like attraction in which performers raced and lassoed horses, demonstrated shows of marksmanship and re-enacted stagecoach robberies and buffalo hunting in a supposed attempt to depict what life was like on the American frontier.īuffalo Bill’s Wild West toured annually in America and in 1887 Cody took his show to Britain where it was included as part of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee celebrations, with the monarch attending one performance in person. ![]() ![]() The dime-novel enabled Cody to became one of the most famous figures of the America ‘Wild West’ and he sought to exploit his fame by establishing Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in 1883. The stories were mostly invented fiction with any truth being subject to extreme exaggeration with Buntline choosing to immortalise Cody by using his nickname, Buffalo Bill, which he had been given whilst operating as a bison hunter in Kansas during the American Civil War. William Frederick Cody was born on 26 th February 1846 in St Claire (Iowa) and found himself perfectly positioned to capitalise on this growing interest in Britain and Europe through his Wild West entertainment ‘show’.īetween 18 Cody had been an American scout, a bison hunter, a rider in the Pony Express and served in the military with his fame becoming established after he became the central character in Ned Buntline’s dime-novel Buffalo Bill, King of the Bordermen. By the late nineteenth century Victorian society had begun to develop a fascination with alternative cultures from around the world and it was the American ‘Wild West’, with its absorbing accounts of cowboys, Indians and stagecoach robberies, that captured the imagination of a large swarth of the population. ![]()
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